boxst

Hello

As a few of you are programmers here, I just wondered which IDE you use to work with WAR files?

I ideally would like one that lets me directly work with the file (and the JSPs etc within it) rather than using a utility like ANT to deploy it.

Thanks!

Steve.

Iain Young

Out of interest, what's wrong with ant?

We use Intellij (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html) to code / debug the software, and do the overnight debug builds / packaging with ant. Seeing as the war file is the final step in the process, and you really only need to do it once per release of the software why do you need a gui tool to do it?

stu200

iTrader: (1)

We use Ant as an automated process, or just fire it off on demand, as necessary. Never had a problem with it

If you want something to do "all the hard work" for you - something like NetBeans or JCreator should suffice.

boxst

Hello

There is nothing wrong with Ant. I just got fed up deploying my WAR file to test JSP's.

I have since found out that I can just call a directory .WAR and unjar all the files in there and it will reload the changed JSPs on demand.

Steve.

Iain Young

Why do you have to deploy the war file to test jsp files?. Why can't you develop with the whole thing extracted, and just war it all up at the end when you're finished, (that's what I do when I'm working with Tomcat).

boxst

Iain

Because I'm using JBoss for a change, and it is strange. Well, it's probably great, but I don't have time to play with the configuration files.

So it's already deploying a war file that I want to change frequently to play with. So the above solution of unjaring into a directory appears to work.

Steve.

Iain Young

Fair enough