I suggest an IDE. We use VisualAge for Java Professional, which has a real
debugger. Plus, you can integrate it with Websphere, and run your servlets on
your development machine without having to export or recompile. It'll let you
step through your servlet code as well.
It costs $99, you can't beat the price, and gives you a hierarchical look at
your classes which truly aids development.
Mario wrote:
> I use a texteditor (I just have a look at UltraEdit) for writing the code,
> jikes from IBM for compiling it (really fast - check
> http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/formula/Jikes) and the servletrunner plus a
> Browser for local testing. Sometimes I miss a 'real' debugger - until now I
> use the log-method. I spend more and more time on thinking and plannig with
> pencil and paper - you avoid many problems and errors and it speeds up the
> developing-process.
> Mario
>
> > I have written a couple of "baby" servelets, but the process seemed
> > slightly tedious. I noticed that when I was experimenting with server
> > side includes, I did not have any mechanism at all for testing my code
> > except to do it "live", on my production server...
>
> > My normal development technique involves a crude
> > WRITE--COMPILE--RUN--DEBUG/REWRITE--ADD FEATURE--COMPILE--RUN--ETC,
> > ETC. Unfortunately, I do not know what servlet development environment
> > will let me constantly compile, run and check my code incrementally as I
> > normally enjoy doing. Are there any hints out there for a newbie? Any
> > thoughts, suggestions, or shared experiences would be greatly
> > appreciated, and would probably save some serious initial floundering on
> > my part!
>
> > Thanks,
> > -Dave McGraw
>
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