Re: IDE Environment for Servlets

["Luther Ananda Miller" <luther.miller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Even with the professional version you can easily debug servlets. Just
import the Java Servlet SDK into VAJ (downloadable from Sun's website). Then
in one of the packages (I forget which offhand) there is a runnable class
(e.g, with a main() method so there is a "running man" icon), something like
HttpServletServer but don't quote me on that. Set its properties to include
the projects which contain the servlets you want to test, then run it. You
can now open a web browser on http://localhost:8080/servlet/MyServletName
etc. (You might need to in your IP address, or 127.0.0.1 instead of
localhost). This will launch MyServletName.class -- put a breakpoint in the
doGet() and you are now debugging! Drawback is it won't do JSP or serve up
straight HTML. For that you need the WebSphere test environment which needs
VAJ Enterprise. Docs say that you need NT to install that, but I run it
under Win98. Seems however under Win98 that IE4/5 gets problems with POST to
the WebSphere test environment running in VAJ, which does not happen under
NT ...

Hope that helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Dean <rddean@gdi.net>
To: <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2000 15:32
Subject: IDE Environment for Servlets


> What kind of support if any is there for developing and testing servlets
in
> VAJ?  If there is none or very little, can anyone suggest another IDE that
> might be better?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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