Personal preference I suppose. I, personally, almost gave up trying to teach myself Java using the notepad/javac/System.out.println routine. Once I was able to step through the code in the debugger (and get something to actually work) I started to appreciate Java. I guess I need that instant gratification. ;o)
I would hate to guess how long it would have taken me to get my first servlet to work using the manual method. But different people learn in different ways. -----Original Message----- From: Peter T. Abplanalp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:50 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Re: Simple WAR files -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:41:19AM -0400, Wagoner, Mark wrote: > I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most > of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. no offense but i recommend /not/ doing this. the ide's do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that you may not understand. if you really want to understand the process, do it manually. once you can do simple things manually, you can switch to an ide because you now know what the ide is doing under the covers. > Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more > sense. once you start creating large complicated applications, ide's make sense because they take some of the manual labor out of the process. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9b5QbggA8sH0iRXQRApgqAJ9ZZQX3XaRO7QJFEZ0GRnsidiOKBgCeJXZv MX2oP1nBGhQVcZC4oWi493Y= =MmIF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
