John Waclawski

I've worked with Eclipse & Netbeans. I REALLY prefer Netbeans because of its ease to set up, ease of use & over all its general layout. I've tinkered with Eclipse & find it rather "overbearing" for the lack of a better term.
The company I work for has some java development positions opening up next year & I want to get my foot in the door with some java training. I believe their using Eclipse but no one will give me a straight answer. If I learn as much as I can in Netbeans (which is much easier for me to learn), will I be able to port over to Eclipse fairly easily?

For those out there doing java development either professionaly or on the side, what IDE are you using?

Thanks to all that help me out with this!

The code I'm running is as follows:

String orderno = tokens[0]; if (orderno.toString() == "15781") { //Code is here } Else { //Code is here }

And even if orderno.toString is showing "15781" when I hover over it using NetBeans, it still hits the Else statement.
Here's what else I've tried

String orderno = tokens[0]; if (orderno == "15781") { //Code is here } Else { //Code is here }

and

String orderno = tokens[0]; if (orderno.ValueOf() == "15781") { //Code is here } Else { //Code is here }

and

String orderno = tokens[0]; if (orderno.toString() == 15781) { //Code is here } Else { //Code is here }

and

String orderno = tokens[0]; if (tokens[0] == "15781") //and tried tokens[0].toString { //Code is here } Else { //Code is here }


amongst a few other editions. Most compile, the one not using "==" did not of course.
Anyways, any suggestions? I'm at a loss here. As you can see I tried & tried to no affect.

HELP!!!

Thanks for this snippet. This is exactly what I was looking for. Works great!

Great! Thank you very much! This is going to be very helpful!

I'm not finding what I'm looking for to be able to edit the Windows registry using JAVA (Netbeans). Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Originally posted by Red Smith:


Glad you got it working, but just out of curiosity - what type of Class is your textField1?

Well now...that's a good question. And frankly I'm embarrassed I don't know the answer. I want to say it's an object. But looking at Netbeans they just call it a TextField.

Originally posted by Red Smith:


If you are talking about a JTextField, I believe you get the data from it with the getText() method (defined in its superclass JTextComponent).

[ August 13, 2007: Message edited by: Red Smith ]

Tried that. The .getText() is an object not a string. At least according to Netbeans it is.

UPDATE!! Figured it out by following a video on Sun' web page on how to write a web app while implementing a WSDL.

I was partially right to begin with (as was Red Smith).

It's textField1.getText() but you add .toString(); at the end so it reads: textField1.getText().toString();

Thanks to all those that actually helped me with something constructive. Much appreciated!

Thanks again.
[ August 13, 2007: Message edited by: John Waclawski ]

Originally posted by Ben Souther:


VB6 made it incredibly easy to build Windows desktop applications.
Visual Studio .NET takes the same approach to building web applications.

With it, you.
Drag and drop widgets onto the screen,
Double click one of the buttons that you just placed on the screen in the last step and are brought into the 'code behind' method that is supposed to act on that button click event.
From there you can set the properties of any of the other widgets (myTextField.text = "Hello, World").
Then click the run button and visual studio will build the entire web application for you ASP, C#, HTML, and Javascript, then fire up a browser with the application running in it.

To get started in that environment, you don't need to know whether you're talking about javascript, HTML, C# etc... The IDE does it all for you.

What he said.

I'm using Netbeans as my original posting stated. That's allowing me to write it, as default in JAVA. I do apologize if I didn't provide enough information. I will regress. This information is mostly for Bear Bibeault:

1. I'm using Netbeans 5.5.1
2. I have the Visual Web plugin module installed.
3. I created a new web application.
4. I dragged(drug) a textfield widget & a button widget to the screen.
a. For testing purposes of the button here is my code:
public String button1_action() {
String s;
s = "Test!";
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,s);
return null;
}
b. I did set import javax.swing.*;
5. I press the button and a message dialog box comes up with "Test!" on it. So I know my button works.
6. I want to type in a value into the textField box I dropped on there. This is in JAVA per the default that NetBeans 5.5.1 uses. How do I get the message dialog box to display what I typed in?

Ben...I'm going to thoroughly read what you have posted. Thanks, Ben, for your information. At least it was a step in the right direction for me.

Originally posted by Ben Souther:
It's actually not simple.

I don't think the VB approach to learning to program Java web applications will work. A better approach would be to find some simple command line tutorials to get your feet wet.

See:
https://coderanch.com/t/364753/Servlets/java/Head-First-Servlets-JSP

I've been plucking away at command line stuff for about 2-3 weeks now. Got my hands, head, feet wet with that. Find myself almost frustrated with all this command line stuff because it's not accomplishing what I really want to dive into.
I checked that link out & I guess I'm at a loss as to what that has to do with what I'm working with. I'm still reading thru it though.

Okay...JavaRanch came with high recommendations for being a great place to find answers regardless of how small they are. The more I read here the more I like what I see.
Anyways, my question....it's so simple I'm almost ashamed to ask it but I'm at a loss.
I have a textField I added and a button. For my self-training all I want to do at this point is type in a value into this textField, press the button & have a showMessageDialog box pop up with the value. Simple, huh? If it's of any help, I used Netbeans 5.5.1 to do this.
I've tried:
textField.getValueAsString();
textField.toString();
Neither worked.

I come from the VB6 side of things & worked with .Net some. I want to learn JAVA cuz it's not MS.