Mon, 03 Jun 2002 03:49:34 GMT

by Charles Miller on June 3, 2002

In the very persuasive article Is Tomcat Crap?, Mike Cannon-Brookes makes the following statement about IDEA

Using Orion (or Resin) is just like using IDEA - the developer productivity increase from Orion is just like the personal performance boost you get from using IDEA over NetBeans or JBuilder. (If you're not using IDEA, you really aren't a good server-side Java developer - are you?)

I'd like to plug IDEA as being really cool. I use it at home, and am very impressed. However, I'd just also like to mention that at work I use the Eclipse-based Websphere Studio Application Developer, and so far, it's impressive. I cant wait for WSAD to move to Eclipse 2.0, which would mean compatibility with the Eclipse AspectJ plugin. (full disclosure: my employer is an IBM business partner)

I miss the hot-code-swapping in VisualAge for Java, though. Being able to change code while you were at a breakpoint in the debugger, hit save, and then have the new code running as soon as you start stepping forward again was magical. Maybe when the Java spec settles down and IDEs no longer have to rush to keep up with it, we'll see features like that start to reappear.

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