You should try out the JBuuilder 4 Enterprise Edition which has just been
released. It has many new wizards and features geared towards serious J2EE
development. Including :-
- EJB tools for visually creating Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and compliance
with the J2EE standard
- Enhanced! Full EJB 1.1 compliant support and EJB 2.0 style interfaces with
visual tools
- Visual creation of EJB Deployment, Environment, and Control Descriptors
- New! EJB groups to organize deployment descriptors and EJB archives
- New! Multiple Enterprise JavaBeans per project
- New! EJB Group Wizard to create EJB groups for importing existing or
creating new EJB descriptors
- New! Enterprise JavaBean Wizard for creating Entity and Session bean Java
source code including home and remote interfaces
- New! Auto-packaging of beans at project build time
- New! Creation of deployable archives per EJB group at project build time
- New! EZ-run preference for instant execution of EJB in run or debug mode
- New! Container (Application Server�) configuration for default and EJB 1.1
compliant application servers
- New! EJB-aware BeansExpress� with visual property editor and method level
conflict resolution
- New! EJB Test Client Wizard to create beans based on available EJB group
- New! Use EJB Test Client Wizard to customize EJB client based on EJB group
- New! Visual creation and configuration of XML deployment descriptors
- New! Deployment descriptor XML source editor
- Enhanced! Two-way editing of deployment descriptor for home and remote
interface, container transactions, security roles and data sources
- New! StructureInsight for visual and XML deployment descriptors
- New! Bean-verifier to check integrity of EJB before deployment
- New! Modeler for Entity Beans to create Container Managed Persistence
(CMP) and Bean Managed Persistence (BMP) entity beans including home and
remote interfaces as well as primary key classes
- New! Combination of DataExpress integrated database tools with entity bean
functionality
- New! Visual mapping of data source, tables and fields to entity bean
- New! Model Entity Bean table relationships between tables for
foreign-keys, primary-keys, unique indexes, field names and field types
- New! Fine-tuning of class, interface, primary keys and JNDI names for Java
code generation
- New! Optionally generate EJB 1.1 or EJB 2.0 style classes with abstract
field accessors
and if you are a WebLogic groupie (we know you are out there) :-
-New! Integrated WebLogic� Server 5.1 development support
-New! Targeted deployment to WebLogic Server
-Dynamic Hot-deploy, to deploy/undeploy/redeploy EJBs to container without
shutting down or restarting
-Integrated two-way-tools for managing and deploying beans, including
Deployment Descriptor Editor, Modeler for Entity Beans and more
-New! Configurable WebLogic ejbc compiler settings for home and remote
interfaces
and finally but not least when you are finished playing with the toys you
can use our industrial strength server, IAS (Inprise Application 4.1.1), the
only application server bold enough to use a capitalized 'i', which ships
with the product.
The JSP support is truly great !!!!
New! Full support for Servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1 standard
New! Plug-in-ready Servlet engine support
New! Option to switch between Servlet plug-ins
New! Tomcat� 3.1 engine plug-in
New! EZ-launch of Servlet or JSP with WebRun and WebDebug
New! Cascading style-sheet (CSS) templates for creating presentation layers
for XML data
New! StructureInsight for XML, JSP, HTML, WML, XSL and CSS source files
New! Javascript� support
Servlet Development
Rapid development of dynamic Servlet based thin-client Java services
Includes Servlet templates
Enhanced! Servlet Wizard for creating thin-client HTML, XHTML, XML and WML
Java Servlets based on Servlet 2.2
Enhanced! Executes Java Servlets in a built-in Servlet-enabled Web-server
Local execution of Servlet
New! Local debugging of Servlet
New! XML Servlet for generation of XML result sets from database queries
New! Remote execution of Servlet
New! Remote debugging of Servlet
Rapid development of dynamic JSP based thin-client Java services
Enhanced! JSP wizard for rapidly creating JSP Web applications based on JSP
1.1
Executes JavaServer Pages in the built-in Web-server
Enhanced! Java Server Pages syntax highlighting and structure view
Includes Servlet and JSP templates
New! Local execution of JSP
New! Easy-launch of JSP (WebRun and WebDebug)
New! Remote execution of JSP
New! Local inline debugging of JSP
New! Native JSP debugging with full breakpoint, watches, evaluation and
context information support
New! CodeInsight, ErrorInsight, ToolTip Evaluation for JavaServer Pages
(JSP) embedded Java
Sorry for eating up the bandwitdh and diskspace but I think if you are doing
serious J2EE development then this tool is up to the challenge IRRESPECTIVE
OF YOUR APPSERVER OR DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.
William Louth
Inprise
www.inprise.com/appserver
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You might worth considering Together Control Centre v4.1 I'm hooked :-)
You can drag and drop EJB's , edit the code, and depending on your app
server,
deploy while the app server is running.
http://www.togethersoft.com/together/togetherCC.html
Paul
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> De: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Bolt, Dave
> Enviado el: martes 12 de septiembre de 2000 16:40
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: Opinions on best IDE for J2EE work
>
>
> I am seeking opinions on the best IDE for J2EE work.
>
> I'm planning an app that uses JSP, Servlets, and EJB in a
> J2EE Blueprints
> sorta way.
>
> I've been using JBuilder 3 on Windows for a couple of years
> (3.5 is too
> slow).
>
> IDE's I'm considering
>
> JBuilder
> Visual Cafe
> Forte
> Netbeans
> Visual Age
>
> Target app servers are:
>
> J2EE SDK (reference implementation)
> JRun 3.0 from Allaire
> JBOSS (www.jboss.org)
> Weblogic 5.1
>
> What IDE best supports the following features?
>
> 1) Team development
> 2) Creation of JAR, WAR, and EAR files that can be deployed
> 3) Object/Relational mapping capability.
> 4) Intuitive easy to use IDE features
> 5) Integration with version control.
> 6) Complete support for J2EE
>
> I'm not interested in starting a "religous" discussion on
> whose IDE is best.
> What I
> want to know is simply, which IDE works the best for the job.
> I'm yet to
> find an IDE
> that really does all I need.
>
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