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

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/09/2006 07:16:19 PM:

4.) I forgot about two other subtle side benefits of the .Net stuff 

- We now have XCOPY deployment just like we did back in the DOS days. 
Create one copy of the app files and all users can run from a shared 
network copy of your .Net app. No more worrying about OCX registration 
either.  I know Java apps work pretty much this way already, however 

this 

is a cool Back to the Future item that was added when Visual Studio .Net 

was released. 

I take it you are using the IKVM mode where you just put it all in the 
same directory?  I thought with .NET you had to deal with "assemblies", 
whatever they are.

- 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......................

Yes, Java has had this for a while.  It depends on the capabilities of the 
JVM you are using though.  It is real easy to launch and debug Java apps, 
including RCP, from Eclipse and this included edit and continue.

Mark