Adam Winter wrote:
>
> I'm just starting down the EJB road, and I'm looking for tools. My
> company is used to RAD tools having been developing for Sapphire/Web.
> Is there a consensus in this group? JBuilder, VisualCafe, VisualAge,
> Rose?
>
> It doesn't look like they offer evaluation versions of their
> enterprise editions and there's no way I can buy something like this
> just to try it out.
>
Can't say about vcafe, vage or rose... but Jbuilder foundation -is-
jbuilder enterprise. Just without a lot of the wizards,
the jbcl (various borland db enabled tools, layout managers, etc)
classes and things like group tools, or source code. With some effort
you
can configure the foundation to do a lot of the things enterprise does.
For example, you can get the j2ee stuff from sun to include as
a library (so jbuilder will browse the source automatically) and use the
sun deployment tool from a menu in jbuilder.
So you can see if you like the environment and then decide about the
enterprise version. Which has all of the bells and whistles
turned on. Of couse you don't actually need any of this stuff but it's
all nice to have.
dave
