Hello!
I am planning on switching to using an IDE in the development of a
Servlet/JSP based system I am working on. Currently, I am doing all of my
coding using a plain old text editor. The complexity of the system has
grown to the point where I am feeling like I could use a good tool to help
me stay organized - I am hoping that the right IDE will help to reduce a lot
of the grunt work necessary when making changes to the core classes used by
the system. I also am in need of a good debugger. I am looking for
feedback about the pros and cons of various IDEs out there on the market. I
can see the usefulness of an IDE for building the GUI of a regular old
applet, but a part of me feels that there is a tremendous amount of hype
about how much an IDE can help with this sort of nitty gritty server side
work. Will using an IDE actually be a tremendous improvement over coding
with a text editor and compiling off the command line? Will a good IDE
actually help me to use better object oriented design in my
database-access-related utility classes, and the classes encapsulating the
core business logic?
To give you a sense of the design principles I am using in this system:
1) As little Java as possible is put into JSPs. Only as much as is
necessary to get values out of session parameters and format them for
display. At some point, even this formatting will be handled by JavaBeans.
2) No HTML is ever put into a Servlet. Servlets simply handle form
requests and put objects into session variables for use by the formatting
JSPs, which they then redirect to.
3) No SQL, and a minimal amount of business logic, ever appears in
Servlets. Rather, Servlets use utility objects which encapsulate the
details of all database activity to do their work for them. At some point,
these utility objects will simply be EJBs running on an application server.
Right now, everything is being done from within the ServletEngines VM.
I would hope that whatever IDE I was using would work well with this design
philosophy.
Thanks in advance for your ideas and stories about how various IDEs have
helped, hindered, or had no effect on your development of Servlet/JSP based
systems.
-Clay
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