IBM's Eclipse

[Linda Pan]

Lately, I've been hearing more and more about Eclipse. Why has it become so popular?

[Pradeep bhatt]

Does Eclipse provide deploying J2EE application modules into different app servers.

[Shane Hartman]

One of the reasons it has become so popular is becuase it is basically free, and provides almost all the functionality of the high dollar ide's like JBuilder. As for deploying to different J2EE servers, eclipse itself cannot do this but a plug-in called MyEclipse Workbench can. It cost $30, but it does provide alot of functionality. It can be found here: http://www.myeclipseide.com/

[Pradeep bhatt]

So it is not free when it comes to deploying to app servers. Does Eclipse run in windows 98 OS?

[Lasse Koskela]

The Lomboz Plugin adds integration for a number of servers (JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle/Orion, Resin, Tomcat) for free.

[sunitha reghu]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Does Eclipse run in windows 98 OS?

If my knowledge is correct it will run

[Dan Kehn]

Indeed, Windows 98 is listed on Eclipse's download page as a supported platform.
-- Dan

[Pradeep bhatt]

Nice to know eclipse works on windows 98.
Pardon my ignorance.
1.Is Eclipse integrated with Juint so that I can perfrom Unit testing easily.
2.Does it support server side debugging or we have to use the tedious System.out.print statements.

[Joe Pluta]

Base Eclipse does not support any facets of J2EE development. Eclipse in fact is only a framework, and it requires plug-ins to do anything. The Eclipse team delivers two basic plug-ins: the JDT (Java Development Tooling) which allows you to create J2SE applications, and the PDT (Plug-in Development Tooling) which allows you to create your own plug-ins.
The primary Open Source J2EE plug-in is Lomboz. I am not as familiar with that, since I use IBM's WebSphere extensions, which are not free (unless you have an IBM iSeries machine). I love the WebSphere components because they allow you to actually run an application server test environment right on your PC and so you can debug your application without even having to deploy it to the application server.
As I said, though, the WebSphere components are commercial, and if you're worried about memory requirements for Eclipse, the test environment takes even more.
Joe