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July 07, 2004
Java Studio Creator
You can get a 30-day trial version of Java Studio Creator from Sun. Creator's a web application IDE that makes it easy to build data-driven, JSP-and-Servlet web apps. Creator comes with an app server, and single-click app deployment, so you can see the results right away.
Not sure what the logo means. Looks like a crystal ball:
By the way, that logo is probably copyright of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
I tried a tutorial this morning. Worked fine. Then I tried another. This one worked fine as well.
My only criticism of the quick start is my general criticism of multipurpose IDEs: I just managed to do something, but have no idea what it is I just did. I mean, in the first tutorial, where you're just pulling the value out of a text field and putting it in an output field, I could see what was happening. In the next one, where you're getting drop-down list values out of a database, I could see what was going on to that extent, but had no idea what was really happening. And this was just the second 10 minutes using the IDE.
Maybe that's just because the database is something provided and I don't know anything either about it's content or about SQL or JDBC. So I suppose the target 10 million developers out there do know this stuff, or at least know about it in the context of the development they do.
Posted by Mark at July 7, 2004 09:07 AM