Pratik R Patel

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Recent posts by Pratik R Patel

Ok, this ain't a technical question, but I'll ask it anyways. As a Java developer I'm excited about Android, but there is hardly any market penetration for Android phones at the moment. I saw an article this week that said the IPhone accounts for 66% of mobile web usage. I realize that as more phones are released based on Android, it will become more popular. However, one of the things that plagued the popularity of J2ME was that the phones were very different in supported features and screen size. The IPhone is great in this regard as it's only 1 device that a developer must troubleshoot and develop against - even though it's a closed platform.
What are your thoughts regarding developing for Android w.r.t. the differences in devices that may exist in the near future. Also, how would you compare the development and deployment of apps between the Android and IPhone platforms?
15 years ago
I've used all three. Eclipse is my main workhorse for normal Java development and is my favorite IDE. I have a license for IDEA and was excited to use it for Grails/Groovy development - but I find it to be sluggish.
However, I'd been playing around with Netbeans for a while as it's Javascript editor is awesome. Netbeans 6.5 includes better groovy/grails support and I've been using it for a couple of days. Earlier releases did not have a stable or usable groovy/grails plugin, but this latest version (I d/l nightly of NB6.5) shows great promise and is actually usable.
Another poster commented that 'you don't really need all them fancy features when working with Groovy' - I can't agree more. Once we get to a certain level of proficiency with Groovy, all you really need is a good editor and a shell.
[ July 06, 2008: Message edited by: Pratik R Patel ]
15 years ago
thanks for the tips. I knew about the "step into", but with a huge method stack, it can take forever to click deep into the JDBC driver.

I'll have a look at JadClipse.

I did find after searching for a few hours more (the eclipse site's mail/news interface makes it so hard to find something) that you can simply do this:
- Open the JAR file in the Package explorer (click the +)
- Browse to the class file you want to breakpoint
- In the outline view, click on the method you wish to breakpoint
- Select 'Toggle Breakpoint'

of course, this only lets you set a breakpoint around the method and not somewhere inside. But this was enough for me to see that there's probably a bug in the Oracle JDBC driver
Here's one for the Eclipse experts:

How do you set a breakpoint in a class file (possibly contained in a JAR) for which you do not have the source code?

I'm writing some code that calls the Oracle JDBC driver. My code looks fine (of course) and I suspect the drive is doing something funny. I'd like to put in a breakpoint in the Oracle JDBC driver's preparedStatement object and see what it thinks I've passed in as parameters.

So, how do I set a breakpoint for source code that I do not have, only the compiled class file?
Hi,

I've seen a ton of open-source tools for performance testing Web applications, but I'm looking to test my business object's and DAO's. I've seen Grinder, which has a plugin to run Junit tests. Are there any other good ones? We don't need something too fancy, but something that is more than barebones - like being able to specify 5 junits tests to run concurrently and getting timing data out from that.

thanks
Pratik
19 years ago