RE: opinions on "good news/bad news"... picking Websphere or MS .ASPor .NET

Richard,

I have used both Eclipse and Visual Studio for quite a while now. It
sounds like you have been using VB.NET because with C# edit and continue
in debug is pretty limited. For example, you cannot edit and continue
with the current statement in C#, which is almost always the statement
you want to change. The edit and continue in Eclipse has been around for
a few years and supports a much broader range of changes than VS 2005
with C#.

Overall, I find the editing support in Eclipse to be much better than
Visual Studio but the Visual Studio database integration and code
generation are more complete and faster than WDSC's iSeries integration.

--David Morris
 
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Hello Mark, 

...
- In Visual Studio 2005 you can make code changes on the fly just like 
back in Visual Studio 5/6. I don't know if WDSC/Eclipse has edit and 
continue yet for Java development.  Not from what I've seen.  This is a 
HUGE benefit when debugging and testing code. Make a tweak, step back in

the code and continue.  How nuts do we go when we have to stop a
program, 
make a change and then re-start the program and step back to where we 
were.   Ahhhhhhhhh......................

Regards,
Richard Schoen