Java - intend to start a debate...

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On Thursday 26 May 2005 06:17,  the author Andy (Aleksander) Rozman 
contributed to the dialogue on Re: Java - intend to start a debate...:
>At 02:46 AM 5/26/2005, you wrote:
>>Hi
>>Ok opinions please -- what do you consider the best development environment
>>for java given:
>>1. need to have both server side and client side running java programs
>>2. Using apache, Tomcat and/or Jboss
>>3. Keeping data, presentation and processing in separate watertight
>>comparments
>>4. Using sql (probably mysql)
>>5. Heavy use of XML input/output based on schemas - output using CSS.
>>6. FreeBSD 5.3 platform for staging server (probably moved to 5.4 before
>>production time (early 2006)
>>7. Experimenting with Java 5 as well as 1.4
>>Arguments encouraged
>>David
>
>Hi David !
>
>Since you want to use all this technologies, you should probably use
>JDeveloper. It's from Oracle and it has support for creating java database
>driven applications of any kind (application, JSP, EJBs), it has internal
>servers for testing and debugging and it's quite easy to use. It's little
>weak on creating java GUI though (for application or applet), but not many
>developer tools can do that... It runs on windows. linux, I even made it
>run on FreeBSD... If you plan to use struts in future, it also support
>that, and the best it's free, but size of full package is around 250 Mb...
>
Thanks for that one -- I have not looked at it but I will take your 
recomendation and check it out.. the download does not bother me while I am 
ashore!!! Do you happen to have the URI for it?

David

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