Confusion avoidance (my approach): Eclipse - simply do not use. IntelliJ works more reliably and predictably, it works as "expected" and has controls where expected.
Jetty vs Tomcat vs ... - Tomcat, removing everything from webapps/ and all the admin application context configurations from conf/Catalina/localhost makes it as fast as Jetty for all practical purposes. Plugins, deployments etc. - one extra command line window that has rinning command "catalina.(sh|bat) run" takes care of everything. --- Murray Collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > Does anybody else find this hellishly confusing? It > makes me want to throw > everything out and go back to a nice simple DOS > system and a Turbo C compiler! > How much simpler it was back then... > > Okay, I downloaded the latest Eclipse system, copied > my project into a fresh > workspace. Saving a file was back to a sub-second > response. Actually I tried > saving a second file to make sure it wasn't a fluke > the first time. There was > definitely a problem somewhere and it has now gone > away. > > Okay, now the second part of the problem. > > Tomcat or Jetty??? > > I don't want to package every time I make a small > change to a config file or > HTML, so I want the servlet engine to use my files > from my development area. My > previous frustrations with restarting tomcat have > encouraged me down the Jetty > track - I downloaded Jetty 6 yesterday and the test > system was working in about > 5 minutes, pretty good. I then added a context.xml > for my application and now > when I start Jetty it simple crashes and refuses to > start the application. I > get an error like: 'No class for Servlet or Filter' > > I haven't been able to find any help on this error. > > I did find information on a Jetty-Maven-Plugin but > form my reading this is all > about packaging the application - I don't want to go > there. I also found a > number of recent comments about Maven2 saying it was > still quite buggy. > > Do I press ahead trying to solve the Jetty stuff or > do I revert back to a Tomcat > system....??? > > I'm developing in a Windows XP environment so this > may limit me from some of the > options suggested here. > > PS Thanks to everybody who has contributed so far - > I really appreciate your > ideas and suggestions. You really are a very > friendly bunch of people. > > PPS My computer is an Intel 2.8ghz processor with > 1gb ram and 80gb harddrive. > It's not slow with other stuff. > > Cheers > Murray > > Some of my understandings: > Sysdeo-tomcat-plugin - packages app and restarts > Tomcat > WTP - packages app and restarts Tomcat > Web Standard Tools - I was using this > AJDT - never used it > Jetty6 plugin - is this the Jetty-maven-plugin > referred above of different? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
