I have been playing with Eclipse and NetBeans for a few days... I am leaning toward NetBeans as well. The interface is a little clunkier.. and I'm not much of a fan of the "filesystems" concept.
I have a question about your "external Tomcat" comment. I have never done servlet-debugging before... (in the real sense... of using a debugger). NetBeans has that built-in Tomcat functionality... but I can't figure out how to use it... especially to test a jsp in the protected WEB-INF directory... (fronted by an Action of course).
Have you used the internal Tomcat before? Is there a way to use NetBeans to debug an external servlet (I am running Tomcat as NT Service on WinXP).
Thanks, Aaron
isaac wrote:
On 6/14/03 8:16 AM, "Aaron Longwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Isaac,
I too am in the market for an IDE. Can you give me some details about what features you like about NetBeans? Are you using any plugins? Any specific features that make J2EE development quicker?
Thanks,
Aaron
I have never used Eclipse's, so, I can't say whether or not it is a better IDE. What I like about NetBeans, however, is that is has great jsp, servlet, xml, css, and html support. It features things like auto completion for taglibs in a jsp page, and auto creation of DTD's from an xml file. The new 3.5 release has address many of the performance issues of previous versions. I will admit, getting an external installation for Tomcat can be tricky at times, but, it's not impossible. ;)
Thanks, Isaac
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