I was in contact with Allaire's Kawa support recently and they told me that
Kawa will support running/debugging Orion directly in it's IDE in an
upcoming service pack, how soon it will be released is not certain, so
caveat emptor. I found Kawa to be a pretty good basic IDE (I don't like lots
of frills, I just want codesense and debugging), although in addition to not
yet supporting Orion it was not a simple affair to add .class files to the
CodeSense. If you want a decent step-thru remote debugger, check out
Bugseeker (http://www.karmira.com) it was a bit tricky to get it connected
to my remote JVM, but once I figured it out it was pretty good, it's *very*
affordable, too. I also have recently become aware of JSwat
(http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/), an open-source debugger. I am
currently using the combination of Visual Slickedit for editing, Bugseeker
for debugging and ANT for building, I occasionally fire up Forte (only
because I have 256 MB memory and lots of time!) to do visual Swing stuff.
Hope this helps,
Mac Ferguson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian
> Richardson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:18 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Debugging and orion
>
>
> Hi,
>
> What tools / IDEs are people out there using to develop EJBs for use with
> Orion? At the moment we (as a project team, rather than company)
> are trying
> to standardise on an app server and IDE to use, requirements being the
> usual:
>
> cost
> speed
> flexibility
> resource usage
> debugging support from the IDE
>
> - I saw that someone mentioned using Kawa with Orion on the orionsupport
> website; has this combination been used by many people? (I'm new
> to the app
> server world, although I've been doing server-side Java work for several
> years now - I'm not used to environments where it's even possible
> to use an
> integrated debugger, but others on the team say it's necessary :-)
>
> Comments about the speed / flexibility / resource usage of Orion
> are welcome
> too, from the website it looks pretty slick and the documentation looks
> good, but time will tell... also if there's any major snags with orion in
> terms of things that the current version doesn't do correctly or doesn't
> implement...
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
> --
>
