looking for high-level web development tools

[unixhack.blogspot.com]

Hello,

Does anybody know of a tool that can help me be more
productive when creating a web-based interface? I am
currently using JSP and servlets, and it seems to me
that I'm writing a lot of redundant stuff. I suspect
that I'm not enough of an Objects guru, but that is
probably best left for another post

Problem description:
I need to implement a rather complicated web interface
to replace a data gathering tool currently semi-implemented
on Excel-VBscript (or so they tell me, I'm totally useless
when it comes to Microsoft development tools). The tool
is like a very complicated wizard with lots of steps,
and the UI that appears at the nth step will depend on
what the user entered at steps 1... n-1.

Finally, I want to be able to send the end results to a
database.

I looked at Struts/Tiles some time ago, but it seemes that
to use them you have to already be a JSP/servlets ultra-expert,
which I'm not quite. (At least that was the case with
all the documentation and books I found/bought -- if there
is a more newbie-oriented website or book please let me
know).

Also looked at IBM's WebSphere product, but
it seems a little overkill for what I'm trying to do.

So, what other tools are available for creating complicated
web interfaces?

(Note that I'm not talking about the HTML part -- I'm quite
happy with writing the HTML on "vi" myself. What I need is to
be able to manage the link between web forms/servlets/database
more efficiently.)

Well, I hope this all makes some sense. Thanks for having read
this far and thanks in advance for any help,

Ernesto

 

[Yakov]

Try Java Studio Creator from Sun Microsystems

 

[carloschang]

Try NitroX for JSP and Struts. It's based on Eclipse and is available
on Linux and Windows. A pix is worth 1k words. Checkout these images:


http://www.m7.com/tiles.htm
http://www.m7.com/Struts_Validation_Framework.htm
http://www.m7.com/debug_JSP.htm
http://www.m7.com/topten.do

-Carlos

 

[Tim Tyler]

Try NitroX for JSP and Struts. It's based on Eclipse and is available
on Linux and Windows. A pix is worth 1k words. Checkout these images:

http://www.m7.com/tiles.htm
http://www.m7.com/Struts_Validation_Framework.htm
http://www.m7.com/debug_JSP.htm
http://www.m7.com/topten.do

Um - it looks like you "forgot" to mention that you are also
(e-mail address removed) - and work for M7 :-|

 

[smpadmanapan]

Hi,
We have simial suitation at our office. so we started using
websphere application studio. It's a quite comperhensive tool.
Development like Java, JSP, Portlets, servlet, struts, JSF and J2ee and
many more developement perpective. Its available in Eclispe version.
"Java is not simple... So using java tools not simple"

 

[cchang]

Tim,

Thanks for keeping me honest. I didn't intentionally use my gmail
account to try to hide anything. If I did, I would have used my yahoo
account ;-) As you can tell from my posts (or simply google me) I am
very up front about who I am and what our products deliver. The beauty
is that our plugin for eclipse (jsp & struts & debugging) is quite
simply, very, very good and stands on it's own merits. I've yet to
meet anyone, whom I've demo'd the product, disagree. (sans competitors,
but put them on a polygraph and I think I would be 100%)

As a marketer, of course I have message, but I hold disdain for any
deceptions. There's no point. The truth eventually comes out and your
product simply has to be good to be accepted.

thanks,

-Carlos
p.s. http://www.m7.com/freeJSP (sorry, I can't help it!)

Try NitroX for JSP and Struts. It's based on Eclipse and is available

Um - it looks like you "forgot" to mention that you are also
(e-mail address removed) - and work for M7 :-|

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