j2se dev tools

[Jesus Angeles]

hello,

i am aspiring to become a j2se developer; i will read hf java and take scjd.

at the workplace, may i know, what software tools does a j2se developer uses? the common big industry dev tools?

wsad, etc.?
[ September 03, 2005: Message edited by: Jesus Angeles ]

[Thomas Paul Bigbee]

It all depends on what shop you are at, however, the below is pretty common, for a J2EE shop (note with EJB 3) you can use J2SE 5.0, for everything J2EE does now (but much easier)

DB2 or Oracle (Database)
WSAD (IDE)
WebSphere (App Server)
Apache (Web Server)

However, the industry is being pushed to Open-Source, due to cost considerations, in this country and India and China, I know for a fact that my own compay (Unisys) is seriously commited to Open-Source.

MySQL (Database)
Eclipse 3.1 (basically WSAD without some plugins, and who cares) (I love this IDE!)
Ant (Build Tool)
JBOSS (App Server)
Hibernate (OR mapping)
Tomcat and Apache (Web Servers)

Note JBOSS comes with Hibernate, Ant and Tomcat already Installed, however for a home learning configuration I would suggest putting the App Server aside (for now) and download and configure the others seperately.


The great thing about this is... the Software is FREE!!! The only other thing I would advocate is some good books.

MySQL Certification Study Guide - from amazon
Professional Eclipse 3 for Developers - from amazon
Hibernate Quickly - from manning
Hibernate in Action - from manning
Java Reflection in Action - from manning
(note everything from manning can be in the form of an eBook (very handy))

Tom

[Jesus Angeles]

thanks a lot

so, wsad and eclipse are some of the top industrial-strength dev tools for j2se (non-j2ee) systems?

which country you at?

[Thomas Paul Bigbee]

Eclipse and WSAD are the same thing, IBM, gave 40 million dollars to support Eclipse, this was not entirely altruistic, WSAD is basically Eclipse with some additional plugins (for WebSphere functionality), so if you know Eclipse, you in essence, know WSAD. By the way, Borland which makes JBuilder (the most popular commercial Java IDE) has stated that it is going to stop making any more versions of JBuilder, because everyone is moving to Eclipse, instead it is going to be making commercial plugins for Eclipse

go to www.eclipse.org to download

By the way I'm in Frisco Texas

[Jesus Angeles]

thanks, i appreciate it,

i worked for a few years in west houston, on y2k projects...i miss that place