Re: Survey: How do YOU develop Java on iSeries? -- JAVA400-L

My java programming comes in spurts. I'll go 3 months without writing any,
and then I'll spend a month writing everything in Java.  Just depends on the
need at the time.

When I do code in Java, if I want a syntax checker for my code I will use
CODE/400, because it is quick and doesn't require much in the way of setup
or even thought to use. Otherwise, and most of the time, I'll use Notepad
and compile from the DOS or QSH command line (depending on where I'm going
to run the java class from).

For JSPs, I will do those entirely in Notepad and test them from a version
of Tomcat running on my laptop.

The reason I go for the simple tools is because a few years ago I spent an
inordinate amount of time trying to learn Java and also trying to learn an
IDE for Java at the same time and I ended up spending more time figuring out
how to use the IDE than I did learning to code in Java. After that, I took a
class at school and ended up using Joe as my editor (anyone remember that
editor?) and it was so much easier because that required me to code
correctly rather than rely on the IDE to catch my errors.  Didn't make me a
great java programmer, but it did teach me not to rely on editors to catch
my mistakes.




Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chrisd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Survey: How do YOU develop Java on iSeries?


>
> I thought it would be interesting to find out how everyone does their
> development Java development for the iSeries, and to possibly share some
> tips for your individual tool chain.  I'll start out:
>
> We've used a few different methods to code Java on the iSeries.  For
> WebSphere projects, we mostly use WebSphere Studio Application Developer
> (migrating to 5.0 right now).  It's a pretty good tool, but often slow.
> Most of the slowness we get when using it is related to building projects.
> A lot of our developers have been asking if there is a way to do
> "background" builds while they go on and work on other tasks in the IDE.
> I've thought about seeing if Ant inside of WSAD will allow for this.
>
> If the project isn't WebSphere related, then we still tend to use WSAD,
but
> I've found that a simple setup of a good PC text editor (TextPad, Notepad,
> insert your favorite here), and Ant on the iSeries (Ant is a Java based
> build scripting tool kinda like Make) can work very well for some
projects.
> I then use the iSeries debugger to debug the Java code (JAVA ... OPTION
> (*DEBUG)) to debug the code from the green screen, and a utility called
the
> BeanShell (http://www.beanshell.org/), which allows you to interactively
> work with Java objects to either play with or debug Java code.
>
> Any thoughts?  What is everyone else doing?
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