Developing Tomcat WebApps with (which) IDE?

[Clay Luther <cl...@cisco.com>]

Howdy:

I have been developing some tomcat-based webapps the old fashioned way
for a test project, but now I must evaluate two Java IDEs to deploy into
our environment.  I've been using JBuilder 3.5 Enterprise and Forte. 
I've found that developing JBuilder-based servlet/jsp webapps and trying
to deploy them to Tomcat is somewhat difficult, so I've moved on to
Forte to see if it works mo-better.

If anyone has had any experience developing for Tomcat (3.1beta) with
Forte, would you please describe your experience?  How easy was it to
deploy from Forte to Tomcat in production, for example?  Did you break
down and use ant at some point?  How does Forte handle the web.xml file?

Private email is fine.

Thanks!

--
Clay
claycle@cisco.com

Re: Developing Tomcat WebApps with (which) IDE?

[Paul McKean <mc...@humility.maf.nasa.gov>]

Clay Luther wrote:

> I have been developing some tomcat-based webapps the old fashioned way
> for a test project, but now I must evaluate two Java IDEs to deploy into
> our environment.  I've been using JBuilder 3.5 Enterprise and Forte.
> I've found that developing JBuilder-based servlet/jsp webapps and trying
> to deploy them to Tomcat is somewhat difficult, so I've moved on to
> Forte to see if it works mo-better.
>
> If anyone has had any experience developing for Tomcat (3.1beta) with
> Forte, would you please describe your experience?  How easy was it to
> deploy from Forte to Tomcat in production, for example?  Did you break
> down and use ant at some point?  How does Forte handle the web.xml file?
>

I don't know much about either of the IDEs mentioned here, but we're using
CodeWarrior with good success developing & debugging servlets with Tomcat
3.1.  We're still looking for a "good" method of debugging JSP though.


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Re: Developing Tomcat WebApps with (which) IDE?

[Clay Luther <cl...@cisco.com>]

Well, I re-attacked the JBE 3.5 + Tomcat 3.1 problem today and I had
some success.  Jasper is still complaining about a bad scratchDir, but
otherwise Tomcat seems to be running, and running my servlets inside of
JBE, fine.

Still, I am wondering how to deploy the app from JBE to Tomcat.  JBE's
preferred file structure seems very flat...

Any more clues out there?

Thanks.

--
Clay
claycle@cisco.com

Re: Developing Tomcat WebApps with (which) IDE?

[Clay Luther <cl...@cisco.com>]

James Cook wrote:
> 
> I may be able to help you with JBuilder integration. I have used Tomcat in
> JBuilder. I am able to compile, run, and *debug* servlets in this
> environment. Tomcat is a little different than prior "servlet runners"
> included in previous Servlet development kits. It's heavier since it relies
> on addition configuration files to run.
> 
> What problems did you experience?


Well, configuring Tomcat for JBuilder was somewhat of a hassle, and,
despite following the instructions on the JBuilder support groups, I
really couldn't get it to work for me (I *am* waiting on a reply from
their support on it).  I've quoted the major problem I had with
Tomcat+JBE below:

---
Currently, I have tomcat installed on my workstation at
/usr/local/jakarta/tomcat.  I have the tomcat server already running. 
However, for development, I created my own copy of the tomcat dist in
~/tomcat.

Following your directions, I made a "tomcat" project, created a Tomcat
3.1 library which pointed to the jars in ~/tomcat/lib, and modified the
execute configuration of the project to use
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat as the entry point, with the VM
parameter of -Dtomcat.home=/users/claycle/tomcat.

I had two problems immediately.  The first was that despite the fact
that tomcat.home=/users/claycle/tomcat, tomcat reported several
file/directory errors.

Re: Developing Tomcat WebApps with (which) IDE?

[James Cook <ji...@iname.com>]

I may be able to help you with JBuilder integration. I have used Tomcat in
JBuilder. I am able to compile, run, and *debug* servlets in this
environment. Tomcat is a little different than prior "servlet runners"
included in previous Servlet development kits. It's heavier since it relies
on addition configuration files to run.

What problems did you experience?

jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Clay Luther <cl...@cisco.com>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:47 PM
Subject: Developing Tomcat WebApps with (which) IDE?


> Howdy:
>
> I have been developing some tomcat-based webapps the old fashioned way
> for a test project, but now I must evaluate two Java IDEs to deploy into
> our environment.  I've been using JBuilder 3.5 Enterprise and Forte.
> I've found that developing JBuilder-based servlet/jsp webapps and trying
> to deploy them to Tomcat is somewhat difficult, so I've moved on to
> Forte to see if it works mo-better.
>
> If anyone has had any experience developing for Tomcat (3.1beta) with
> Forte, would you please describe your experience?  How easy was it to
> deploy from Forte to Tomcat in production, for example?  Did you break
> down and use ant at some point?  How does Forte handle the web.xml file?
>
> Private email is fine.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Clay
> claycle@cisco.com
>
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