J2EE environment

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Mark - 21 Mar 2005 08:29 GMT

Hi,

I'm considering configuring a low-budget development environment for myself
and some of my colleagues. An environment with which we can get some
experience with UML-2 and J2EE. For this I consider using Eclipse as it
becomes more and more widely used, and Sparx Enterprise Architect as I find
it a very user friendly modelling environment.

Can you advice me on how to proceed? Is this a good choice? What else do we
need (application server, ??).

Kind regards,

Mark

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littlewild@gmail.com - 23 Mar 2005 10:51 GMT

For starters, you can use:
Eclipse as IDE.
Tomcat as application server. (No EJB functionality though)

Not sure about Sparx Enterprise Architect...the only UML tool I have
used is Rational Rose.

Once you are ready to move on from JSP/Servlet to EJB/JMS and other
J2EE components, you can try getting one of the certified J2EE
application servers like JBoss.

> Hi,
>
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>
> Mark

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Mark - 24 Mar 2005 14:51 GMT

Okay, thanks for the advise.

I installed JBoss application server and Eclipse. They both do their job,
but ... can't get them to work together yet. I probably shouldn't have tried
the preview version...

Mark

For starters, you can use:
Eclipse as IDE.
Tomcat as application server. (No EJB functionality though)

Not sure about Sparx Enterprise Architect...the only UML tool I have
used is Rational Rose.

Once you are ready to move on from JSP/Servlet to EJB/JMS and other
J2EE components, you can try getting one of the certified J2EE
application servers like JBoss.

Mark wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm considering configuring a low-budget development environment for

myself

> and some of my colleagues. An environment with which we can get some
> experience with UML-2 and J2EE. For this I consider using Eclipse as

> becomes more and more widely used, and Sparx Enterprise Architect as

I find

> it a very user friendly modelling environment.
>
> Can you advice me on how to proceed? Is this a good choice? What else

do we

> need (application server, ??).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark

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littlewild@gmail.com - 24 Mar 2005 18:45 GMT

Hmm if you are talking about out of the box integration with JBoss, I
think you are out of luck. Eclipse was designed to be as platform
neutral as possible, if you want to have app server support in Eclipse,
you have to use plugins.

JBoss happens to have one plugin specially made for Eclipse - the
JBoss-IDE plugin. See http://jboss.sourceforge.net/jbosside/updates/
for download instructions and see
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20242 for how you can use the
plugin.

> Okay, thanks for the advise.
>
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> >
> > Mark

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Mark - 24 Mar 2005 21:05 GMT

I was talking about the plugin. And now it finally works. After a half day
of installing different versions on a computer which is low on memory, I
found the problem: a space in the path name to the JBoss folder (Program
Files). Works fine now that I copied it to the root..

Tomorrow I will try to install the demo of Sparx Enterprise Architect with
its Eclipse plugin.

Mark

Hmm if you are talking about out of the box integration with JBoss, I
think you are out of luck. Eclipse was designed to be as platform
neutral as possible, if you want to have app server support in Eclipse,
you have to use plugins.

JBoss happens to have one plugin specially made for Eclipse - the
JBoss-IDE plugin. See http://jboss.sourceforge.net/jbosside/updates/
for download instructions and see
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20242 for how you can use the
plugin.

Mark wrote:

> Okay, thanks for the advise.
>
> I installed JBoss application server and Eclipse. They both do their

job,

> but ... can't get them to work together yet. I probably shouldn't

have tried

> the preview version...
>
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> >
> > I'm considering configuring a low-budget development environment

for

> myself
> > and some of my colleagues. An environment with which we can get

some

> > experience with UML-2 and J2EE. For this I consider using Eclipse

> it
> > becomes more and more widely used, and Sparx Enterprise Architect

> I find
> > it a very user friendly modelling environment.
> >
> > Can you advice me on how to proceed? Is this a good choice? What

else