Not sure if this helps, but at least from my perspective, you'll spend a little bit of time learning any IDE other than a basic text editor. Personally, I have done all my development with UltraEdit ($30 www.ultraedit.com). It works great, and you can add command-line calls to run run Ant to build your project, deploy it, etc. It has syntax highlighting, nice tree-view on the left to navigate your hd (projects), an output window that can capture the output of java applications, and so on. For servlets and JSP, you do NOT need any fancy IDE. If you want a decent one, I would check out www.netbeans.org. Its free, open-source and offers a lot of nice features, although it does have some annoying things about it as well. It is 100% Java written so it should run on whatever platform you want. It is continuously updated almost daily as well. I now use this IDE, although for "quick" editing I still use UltraEdit because of its fast startup time. Java Swing apps still have some ways to go before they can start up quickly.
Anyways, focus on using MVC to develop your web application. My framework, Theseus (www.theseus.org) can help you out building web applications in a scalable managable way while making it more rapid than just using JSP for everything. I suggest STRONGLY in not adding ANY java to your JSP pages unless it is absolutely necessary. Try to use (as theseus has you do) a single controller servlet that then dispatches to a specific method based on a parameter passed in to do the work, using a JavaBean as the "model" data holder between pages (stored in the HttpSession). Also try to avoid using the HttpSession for storing tons of objects, that gets unmanagable, as well as kills your ability for a smooth scalable solution. Using a single object that contains fields for specific storage needs makes more sense. Anyways..for what it is worth, hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: olizedobar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/23/2001 9:27 AM Subject: is it worth investing on an IDE? hello, I have to build a site with jsp/servlets with a very tight schedule, and am looking for ways to cut down on development time. would it be worth gettting an IDE like JBuilder? or would learning the IDE itself end up taking up the time saved? tia, Oliver ======================================================================== === To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
