Re: Tomcat Basic Wizard is Missing

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

Tim,

I used to use the enterprise version of VA/Java and
WebSphere Studio Advanced. Recently, A few months
ago I moved to Eclipse and WebSphere Site Developer,
which is based on Eclipse. The latest versions of Eclipse
work much better with CVS, which is very helpful in my
environment.

If you do decide to check out Eclipse, I could help you get
started. I found it difficult to get set up initially because the
setup instructions are overwhelming and don't cover some
of the more obvious bugs and workarounds that you need
to know about when you start out. WebSphere Site Developer
is much easier because the installation is not as generic.

If you use Eclipse, you need to get the Tomcat Plugin, which
is pretty basic at this point but adequate.

I would look at Struts if you are just getting started with JSP
pages. Struts provides a framework that will save you
hundreds of hours writing low-level routines and gives you
an idea of what should go where. It is real similar to the
framework that display files provide on the AS/400 over
writing directly to some output device. The Struts website
is at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts.

David Morris

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Hi David,
...I'm very glad to hear that you and others are working with Tomcat
on
iSeries, I am very interested in it as well and I'm hoping to make some
real
progress now that I'm past this problem.  I am curious about what
development tools you and others are using.  I've built a fair number
of
IIS/ASP sites using Visual Interdev (ughh), a product called Drumbeat
and
now Dreamweaver/UltraDev but I'm just getting started with JSP's.
However,
now that Macromedia has come out with MX and MS has released .NET, I'm
considering using MS' Enterprise Architect for .NET and IBM's
Websphere
Studio Application Developer for Java/JSP, what do you think?.  Also,
are
you using the Jtopen version of the Toolbox?

Thanks,

Tim