My Development Environment

This is my development evironment:

• Eclipse 3.2.2 - Eclipse is a really good IDE with a wealth of plugins. Netbeans has good JSP/Servlet/EJB wizards and integration with Glassfish, but Eclipse foundation has countered that with their own Web Tools Platform (WTP) (http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/main.php). The only problem is that it is a project to install and configure WTP with an existing Eclipse installation. Better to start with the complete bundled package.
• Glassfish v1 - I switched from Apache to Glassfish due to problems with Ajax on Apache 5.5. So far I am happy with it, but beware the autodeploy mechanism. Some old Javascript became stuck in one of the directories, and it was very difficult to figure out why I could not update it. Eventually, I found the directory with the old .js file and deleted it. Now I just use asadmin deploydir and undeploy.
• Apache 5.5 - I have used Apache since the beginning. There is a good Eclipse plugin that made servlet development so much easier. The reason I started something else was becuase of the Ajax problem. Maybe v6 will clear up the problem.
• JDK 6.0 - Just keeping up with the latest.