Am Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 13:23 schrieb Omer Tariq: > Hi there, > I'm about to start on my first professional JSP/Servlet project and have > done some "hands dirtyin'" on the Sun One Studio IDE. I'd like to know how > reliable and popular this IDE is and how does it compare to others. > Regards, > Omer
Hi Omer, the reliability of S1 Studio is heavily discussed on the Sun EAP list, currently, and a number of people people obviously found it to be not stable enough for their personal tastes. Others complain it's slow when compared to the rather bare-bone Eclipse. I won't judge, check for yourself. Telling from my own experience I found hat S1 (as NetBeans) is a great IDE for web development in particular, as it has full- fledged support for that, including a HTTP monitor which is extremely useful when problems arise. Most other IDEs, even 'commercial' ones, seem pale to comparison in this direction, and you get database support, CORBA, RMI and a lot of other things for free from the Community edition. S1 gene- rally supports the latest standards in Sun Terms, that is: Servlets 2.3 and JSP 1.2. It won't touch existing web application descriptors complying to earlier versions, but it's hard to create those for earlier versions directly in S1 for new projects. Apart from that, getting com- fortable with S1 may take some time if you're already accustomed to other IDEs. On the other hand, Forte 4 | Sun ONE Studio is something like JBuilder Professional for free for both non-profit and commercial projects. I say it's good and well worth a look. Eclipse may be faster, but this is no wonder, as it's so limited you wouldn't want to take it in consideration for real-world projects beyond applets and applications without GUIs. You can get that web support via plugins, but most of them are in a real early stage, rather instable and no competitive alternative, currently, at least. Or buy IBM's WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD), but with all the lacking features on board, it's really slow, too. Well, after evaluating quite a number of IDEs, both commercial and 'free' ones (including Sun ONE, JBuilder 7 Enterprise, WSAD, Visual Cafe, Together 6, VisualAge EE, IntelliJ and numerous less-known alter- natives), my current mainstay is Oracle's JDeveloper 9i which you should check out as well. This is something like JBuilder 8 for free, with integrated Struts support and some nice other features, including J2EE, and I do a lot of Oracle-related work, so it fits best in general for my purposes. The good thing about JDev 9i is that you can switch off all those proprietary extensions and still have a professional, J2EE-supporting IDE. It's really stable, but it's not perfect. In comparison to S1, it sometimes even falls short. S1 has a better JSP debu- gger, which also shows you the servlet code generated from JSPs, a feature I heavily missed recently when Resin failed to compile JSPs which worked perfectly under Tomcat, Orion, Oracle iAS and LWS 3.0, and I also miss the HTTP Monitor integrated into S1, as that one shows you just everything conveivable about your web app's actions, whereas in JDev 9i, using the TCP Monitor, you end up with just the clear-text versions of request/response without any info about request parameters, session state and everything. Well, after all, there is no perfect IDE. At work, we use Sun ONE studio and are quite content with it. -- Chris (SCPJ2) =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com
