Category: IDE

IDE

Switching to IDEA, another tale

And since we’re talking about switching stuff, another thing that I recently changed is the IDE I’m using on a day by day basis. I have been a long time Eclipse user, and I still think it is a great IDE, specially for the price (you can’t beat free, can you?). It is stable enough, […]

Guillermo Castro 
IDE J2EE Java

Why I dislike Websphere

At work, I’ve been working on a project that uses Websphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1. Part of the development setup is to use Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) 5.1, because it is tightly integrated with WAS. One of the problems this represents is that WSAD 5.1 is based on Eclipse 2.1.3. After working with Eclipse […]

Guillermo Castro 
IDE Web

MyEclipse 4.0 is out…

Finally, after using 4.0M2 for a while, I am upgrading to the GA (General Availability) version of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench. Among the new features that comes with this release, I’m most interested in their UML Perspective, their JSF support and the new Visual Web Designer. You can check all the new features here. For only […]

Guillermo Castro 
IDE

WPT 0.7 Out… Hold your horses!

So, after playing around with Eclipse’s Web Tools Project 0.7, which was released last friday and reading some of the documentation from the site, I can say that, at least for me, WTP isn’t ready for prime time yet. The developers of WTP acknowledge this, as they changed the version number from 1.0 to 0.7 […]

Guillermo Castro 
IDE Web

Eclipse Web Tools Project 0.7 out soon

According to the milestone plan for the Eclipse Web Tools Project, they are scheduled to release the first stable build of the project today. Many people have waited for this project to come out, as it will add a very needed feature to Eclipse, namely the creation of web projects (JSPs, J2EE, etc.) I have […]

Guillermo Castro