No one of the things you list is essential on its own. There are several
Java IDEs that are good for developing beans and servlets. The ability to
debug server code is important here.
But the big issue in server development is decoupling the design job from
the programming job. My view is that the real need is for a web designer's
tool that can make some effort at representing the output of JSP code and
custom tags, so that the final appearance of the page can be designed.
This is obviously a very difficult thing to do - in many cases it's
impossible. Maybe there should be some protocol whereby programs embedded
in HTML can tell an editor what the output might look like.
Chris Walker
Brainbench MVP for ASP
http://www.brainbench.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tools in JSP
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been seeing recently lot of mails on JSP tools. Can
> you please let me
> know what exactly
> you are looking for from a JSP tool.
>
> 1. Debugger which helps you in identifying errors at the time of
> translation.
> 2. Version control & Team development
> 3. Modeling (!?) or Design
> 4. Costs
> 5. Light Web Test Server Environment like VisualAge.
> 6. Multiple colors to identify different tags at source-level.
> 7. Compatibility with differnt web/ app servers.
> 8. Formatting of source code
> 9. Database access support
>
> Let me know how these JSP tools really justify these issues. Also
> which feature of the JSP tool is more important.
>
> Thank you
>
> Rajan
>
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