On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 10:15:16 AM, FM wrote: PPF> I am in fix with a IDE I have never used before in my life, PPF> Oracle JDeveloper 9i. Is there anyone out there who give some pointers PPF> on how to compile and deploy a Struts demo on to an external PPF> running Tomcat 4.1.18 server on Windows NT 4.0?
I know this IDE has won awards, but in my, not so humble opinion I think this IDE is horrible. It's so bloated with stuff and even on a fast machine it seemed to run slow. But the biggest problem I had with it was everything seemed like a chore to learn how to do with the tool. To deploy with it you have to develop your app and then it provides a way to deploy a war file out to the server. To me it seems so much more worthwhile to just learn a quick ant script that you could use with any IDE (or none for that matter). My suggestion is to not even use JDeveloper. I'll give you another situation that came up from it... this other guy here isn't being cool and using Struts so he had a bunch of scriplets on pages which required him to import java.util stuff at the top of his JSP pages. Well somehow he didn't have those imports but running in the JDeveloper environment and JDeveloper didn't care - everything displayed fine in his JDev environment. (don't ask me how). Problems later, though, when this person copied up some of the JSPs straight to the server. Of course it required the imports. As long as he deployed with JDev and the war it built to oc4j I think everything was fine. But in my opinion, it wasn't fine since you couldn't give this JSP page to someone else and have them use it, it seemed to have to be developed within the context of JDeveloper in order to work. Also try taking an existing web application that you have and try to get it set up in JDeveloper. It's a total mess and so non intuitive. Contrast this with Intellij's IDE or even Netbeans. In those IDEs you simply say "here is my webapp," "here is my src directory", etc. Never seemed to work like that in JDeveloper. With Intellij I downloaded the IDE and was up and doing what I needed to do in no time flat. JDeveloper on the other hand you spend more time trying to figure out how to get the tool to do what you want. Anyway I'm done ranting. Probably many on this list love JDeveloper and I'm sure it is very powerful once you learn it. I'll stick with Intellij's IDEA and JEdit and be a happy camper:) My suggestion use IDEA or even JEdit will do the trick (with less neat bells and whistles). -- Rick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
