Eclipse vs. IBM WebSpehere Application Devleoper Studio

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:18:04 -0400
"Default User" <us**@domain.com> wrote:

Hi there. I have a few newbie questions. My employer has chosen to use IBM WebSphere Application Server to deploy apps on. As one of my first steps in learning Java/J2EE I need to choose and IDE. Some of the questions I can't figure out are:

Since WSAD (WebSphere Application Developer Studio) is very

expensive but based off Eclipse, is it true to say that Eclipse could suffice as an IDE when applications will be deployed on WebSphere Application Server?

Would a plugin such as MyEclipse Workbench make developing with

Eclipse and deploying to WebSphere easier?

Say an application was developed in WSAD, could that application be

opened in Eclipse, edited and redeployed to WebSpehere Applciaton Server and
vice-versa?

What's your opionion? Save the thousands or does WSAD make that much

of a diference?

Thanks :-)

Eclipse is the IDE portion of Websphere. Plugins for Eclipse should
work on Websphere. The main differences are ibm proprietary plugins
that come with Websphere.

Any development done in websphere that uses ibm jar files is not easily
developed on eclipse. You would need to locate those classes and make
them available in eclipse. Deployment is a separate issue.

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Hi there. I have a few newbie questions. My employer has chosen to use IBM
WebSphere Application Server to deploy apps on. As one of my first steps
in
learning Java/J2EE I need to choose and IDE. Some of the questions I can't
figure out are:

>Since WSAD (WebSphere Application Developer Studio) is very expensive but

based off Eclipse, is it true to say that Eclipse could suffice as an IDE
when applications will be deployed on WebSphere Application Server?

>Would a plugin such as MyEclipse Workbench make developing with Eclipse

and deploying to WebSphere easier?

>Say an application was developed in WSAD, could that application be
opened

in Eclipse, edited and redeployed to WebSpehere Applciaton Server and
vice-versa?

>What's your opionion? Save the thousands or does WSAD make that much of a

diference?

Thanks :-)

MyEclipse is a fine J2EE plugin in my opinion. I find it much easier to
work with than WSAD and MyEclipse has embedded support for most servers.