Last year when I started a new development project and chose Struts as the core application development technology I looked at and evaluated the three main IDE enhancements for Struts that I saw. I first decided that Eclipse 3.0 was going to be my IDE of choice. I then evaluated MyEclipse, Struts Studio, and NitroX. MyEclipse was still early in the Struts support at that time and NitroX was a beta.
That said, I ended up going with both NitroX and MyEclipse. I do all my primary development in NitroX using CVS for my code repository. I then use MyEclipse to do a final syntax check/validation on the code -- MyEclipse' does JSP compilation and syntax checking a little stringer than NitroX. I have to counter Frank's argument from the benefits of the IDE side. I used the IDE/NitroX to develop my code -- I didn't use any of the wizards of NitroX to develop my code. I used a good Struts book -- amazingly (despite my hating the title) I found the Jakarta Struts for Dummies book to be very well written and easy to learn from/reference. The benefits of NitroX for Struts development is how it scans and analyzes the application. It will spot problems between my Struts-config.xml file, my validation.xml and application resources where typos the manual way can cause you hours and hours of debugging. The other part of having a good IDE is debugging the code. I have a complex Struts application that I developed as the only developer (actually I ended up building my own Struts application generator to build/rebuild 80+% of the site). This site has over 100 JSP pages, over 400 java classes, and works on a database system with ~100 tables. The ability to set breakpoints in JSP pages and watch the action happen live versus adding in log statements if you didn't use an IDE to debug the system is worth far more than the ~$500 the tool costs in time savings alone. Hope that helps -- my 2 cents. Brian > On Fri, February 11, 2005 9:53 am, Rafael Taboada said: > > Greetings from Peru > > > > Hi, i'm new in this list. I want to know if anybody tried Struts > > Studio IDE. Is it good?. Are there any other IDEs?. Because I'm new > > using struts, i'w like to use an IDE that help me using struts. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > > > Rafael Taboada --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
