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What’s a good free JSP/Web Design tool?
I’ve tried Eclipse w/ the Web Tools plug ins, but it seems to act flaky and buggy.
I’ve also tried Sun’s Studio Creator and Studio Enterprise 8, but they seems to work mainly with JSF, and I’m trying to learn more about JSP and Servlets first.
I have over 5 years experience coding with J2SE, and now I’m trying to get into the J2EE/Web stuff as that seems to be where the jobs are.
Thanks!
Netbeans has always been my favorite but there is no way I will touch html (JSP) without dreamweaver so dont expect to get away with it without learning to use 2-3 tools.
Dont let JSF scare you. Java Server Faces is in effect a JSP/Servlets Framework to help you code better web apps faster just like Ruby on Rails.
Anyway my advice as a web developer is to keep it simple. I never got used to using Java on the server and I found that with Java it took me more time to get something done that say with PHP. IMHO Java is not for serving pages, its a good tool to have in the backend but upfront you need lightweight, fast stuff like PHP, ruby or VB even.
So make a decision now, and dont waste time trying to be both things. You want to mess with data, services, XML responses and stuff like that ? Go with J2EE.
You want to code web apps ? Go with PHP, Javascript (AJAX is the future) or Ruby
Hope that helped
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