Re: Survey: How do YOU develop Java on iSeries?

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

I use Eclipse or WDSc as and editor and write no platform specific
code. 
That allows me to build and test applications on my PC before moving 
the entire package to the iSeries. To make this work, I use CVS and 
Ant to manage the source and build parts. I use Hibernate to manage 
persistence so that I can use mysql or postgres on my PC and DB2 
on the iSeries without code changes. I use Tomcat and Struts for an 
application server/framework. Other tools I use quite a bit are jUnit,
jMeter, and jProfiler. On the iSeries I recently had the opportunity 
to try the Performance Trace Data Visualizer, which is the best
profiler 
I have used because it stays out of the way and gives a good picture 
of what is happening but it is pretty buggy and I couldn't get it to
work 
over more than a 10 seconds of activity.

I always use some version of Eclipse because of the run/debug support,

which is far to valuable because I write code in pieces and debug as 
I go. I used to write lots of main type tests, but now I use jUnit for

the same type of thing, which makes regression testing very easy.

David Morris


>>> chrisd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 9/24/2003 7:23:14 AM >>>

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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Chris DeLashmutt