J++ is actually quite a good servlet development environment - especially if
you are used to Visual Studio.
You simply can turn off MS "extensions" in the compiler. I've been using it
for over a year and have never once generated code in J++ that wouldn't run
in the Sun VM. The J+ debugger is great and the MSVM is way faster than the
Sun VM (at least the 1.1 versions).
It's the GUI builder part of it thats the most non-portable, I'd recommend
you stay well away from that! It was apparently the lead developer from
JBuilder (and Delphi before that) that invented the non-java "delegate"
keyword that the GUI builder uses and Borland refused to implement it so he
went to Microsoft and they did it! Strange...
Beware - there's no Java 2 compatibility though...
Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: Luc Saint-Elie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 11 November 1999 8:05
Subject: Re: Servlet vs VJ++ 6.0
>George,
>
>I think you are confused by two things:
>
>1) the JVM (SUN, Blackdown, IBM, Kaffe, MS..)
>2) the development tool (JBuilder, Visual Cafe, Visual Age, MS J++...)
>
>Considering the JVM its the key to potability. If your servlets are
>compiled only against a specific JVM (being Microsoft or anybody else one I
>don't intend to start the holly war), you loose potability
>
>Considering the development tool you can, use any tool you want and MS or
>Borland one are not (IMHO) the best ones, as their main point is the
>interface.. and the servlet as no interface.
>
>The other point is the debugging features and I don't know how MS (or
>Borland) perform in this area.
>
>But even if MS development tool has great debugging features, being forced
>to use MS JVM seem to me a very exepnsive price to pay.
>
>
>Le 13:14 10/11/99 -0500, George Ter-Saakov a �crit:
>>Microsoft JVM is portable enough to do projects.
>>It's fast ( despite Visual AGE and his always corrupted workspace.) And
not
>>so buggy as J++ Builder ( not fastest program too ).
>>
>>For me there is only one competitor for J++ VisualCafe but I did not have
>>time to evaluate it completely.
>>
>>George.
>
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