I have worked on both JDeveloper and WebSphere Studio Application Developement.(WSAD).JDev is a very robust and a decent tool. WSAD is also a nice tool but the latest version of WASD is version 5 (beta). The problem is , as of now ,this version is supporting jdk1.3 Yes ! there is no support for jdk1.4 I guess IBM has promised to provide the 1.4 support to this version (i.e. when version 5 is released) Oracle JDev supports 1.4. Nevertheless both the tools are decent as per functioning is concerned.
The biggest problem that i have encountered is that JDev. creates a method JbInit() which it uses to build the GUI.As you place controls on the form , all of them get listed in the JbInit().WSAD creates an initialize() method for building the GUI and for every control that you place on the form, it creates a getter method. This method is then called in respective panel's getter method (in which the component is placed) which is then called in the initialize().I don't know if such a methodlogy of designing is a design pattern .. but it does create migration problems because you just cant open a JDev file in WSAD and expect it to be visible in the visual editor. On the whole both tools are good. regards *************************************** Abhay Kulkarni Tel No: 877 4081 (Ext: 275) mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************** "Thou Shall Not Stress, Take a Walk, and Then Look Carefully at Yonder Stack Trace." ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Which IDE to use > A few comments: > > > At 07:30 PM 12/4/2002 -0500, George Mitchell wrote: > >I asked this question over a year and half ago and opted for Jbuilder, > >which my company has been using since then. The other choice was IBM's > >Visual Age - both of these products have consistently vied for first and > >second place in various product reviews for several years now. > > Visual Age is no longer supported. IBM now offers, instead, the > Eclipse-based WebSphere Application Studio Developer. I personally liked > VA, but some of it quirks (such as saving in a repository rather than the > native file system) were kind of, well, quirky. I find WASD (and to a > lesser extent Eclipse) to be a friendlier version of VA. > > [...] > > >Secondly, you should be aware that Oracle's Jdeveloper IDE is in fact a > >rebranded version of Jbuilder. Moreoever, Sybase has apparently decided > >to stop developing its PowerJ product and has opted to integrate its > >products with Jbuilder as well. So that is a strong endorsement from > >the top database companies. > > > > The latest version of JDeveloper, 9i, is a significant improvement over the > 8i version based on JBuilder, from which I believe, it has diverged. > > > >Finally, Borland has just purchased the TogetherSoft CASE tool so in the > >near future there will be an integration between TogetherSoft's UML > >modeling tool and Jbuilder to enable applications to be generated from > >the object models. > > TogetherSoft and Borland are both involved in eclipse.org and it will be > interesting to see what develops out of that. > > > ____________________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
