On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:24 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > On 22/06/05 10:53 Simon Kitching wrote: > > Personally I think you're buying yourself a world of pain if you try to > > do servlet/ejb/etc java development using the free java tools. They are > > definitely getting better and are useable for some tasks but aren't > > completely there yet. > > I re-read that 3 times to make sure I had read it correctly. I > completely disagree! I use JBoss, Tomcat, Sun JDK, Eclipse, ant (or > maven) and I have no issues. > > Which non-open-source tools out there should I seriously consider > spending money on?
I only meant Kaffe/Classpath/gcj and things of that level. They've come a long way in the last year or so and I look forward to the day they can be used as a substitute for Sun's JDK. It may not be very far away. But personally I would develop on Sun/IBM jdks and then port/test on Free platforms rather than develop on free platforms; developing on a platform you can't trust to be generally bug-free and feature-complete isn't nice. Sun'd JDK is only free-as-in-beer. Things like JBoss/Tomcat/Eclipse etc. are excellent tools, and at least as good as their commercial competitors IMO. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
