Hi all, I'm looking a bit of advice from all you 'oul hands out there. I've only been programming (?tinkering) in java for the last year (or so) and only with servlets in the last 3 months (on an evaluation/basic development basis). I have been doing this with a fairly light-weight web server that has a built-in servlet engine and very easy to set up (vqServer from www.vqsoft.com).
Having now decided to run with java servlets I would like to install a more substantial web server (and anything else required) for running the finished applications. Having been a member of this mailing list for the last few months I can see people continually referring to Tomcat / Apache,etc. As I have no experience in this area, and not wanting to dive in and maybe take the wrong decisions on what to use, I am asking for someone's advice on what to use and where to find it. Basically, assume I am starting from scratch with java servlets and want to know the best route to get started as far as web server/servlet engine,etc. is concerned. I will most likely be using mainly MS Windows platforms, currently Win98. I'm quite happy, but no expert, with the java programming side of things though advice on a good graphical java editor would also be appreciated (one that points out your errors and allows you to correct them on-the-fly without having to leave the editor). I tried Borland JBuilder (v4) and the editor from the SUN site (whose name escapes me at the moment) but both seem overly complex and take quite some time to start up - with the result that I have been doing all my editing in Microsoft WordPad and compiling from a DOS prompt. While this approach works OK it can be cumbersome to debug your program and time-consuming. Many thanks for your time in regard to this matter, though I'm sure it will be helpful to other beginners like myself to hear what the 'real' developers prefer to use in everyday work. Best regards, Billy Graham.
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