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J2EE enabled Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) Wizards and plug-ins and add-ons (oh my!). Integrated Development Environment (IDE) makers bring all kinds of RAD tools to bear on the subject of J2EE development. These new IDEs come equipped with veritable armies of plug-ins - Forte for Java alone has over 100 partners and 50 integration modules. These IDEs promise to lead us on the "great development adventure." Getting there is only half the fun. With added focus on J2EE and Web service technologies, IDEs greatly improve server developer productivity. IDEs have become very powerful as RAD solutions. Writing and testing an EJB, a task that might have taken a whole day can be done in minutes with some J2EE enabled IDEs. They can do this - and more. It is no longer necessary and probably not desirable to "do everything" on the command line. In general the IDEs provides fast and easy management of a set of high demand services for various server technologies. IDE developer services: The IDE provides rapid development (RAD) services that can include: Wizards that generate program and/or XML code for a particular technology. Testing: Automatic unit test creation (eg. JUnit) or test harnesses integration. UML and integration with external UML tools using XMI Integration with change management tools such as ClearCase, Perforce, CVS. Deployment: Generation of jars, wars, ears, and related XML code for deployment for various application servers. J2EE Architectural OEMs and Add-ons and specialized add-on tasks called "plug-ins" that perform various tasks - including deployment, often using tools like Ant Server technologies: Technologies of interest to server developers that IDEs provide for include: JavaServer Pages (JSP) Servlets Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1 and 2.0 Enterprise application integration (EAI) and Web services, WSDL and SOAP. Mobile devices (J2ME) and applications Security Data integration, reverse engineering, and data modeling: JDBC, JDO, JCA, JNDI The new breed of IDE provides a wide array of services for various J2EE technologies. The IDE may provide services natively, or by using plug-ins developed by a third-party developer. Adapting the IDE to a particular app server is often done using a plug-in. There are also plug-ins for refactoring, UML/XMI and wireless services, security, and APIs like JDO. When deciding on which set of tools you are going to use, you might ask is which IDE has the features you want, or operates with the application server you are using. Another question is which version of the IDE to use. IDEs can come in different flavors - enterprise (generally expensive) and open source (generally free). Architecture and Pattern server plug-ins and add-ons. One very exciting aspect of the new IDEs is that they integrate with J2EE architecture and pattern servers such as ObjectAssembler, OptimalJ, Rational XDE, and Wakesoft. Pattern servers provide a rapid way of implementing pre-built templates of pattern, pattern frameworks, and whole applications. The architectural pattern servers also sometimes have a free version and an expensive one. So for instance, you can get the freeware version of JBuilder and enhance it with the enterprise version of ObjectAssembler. Or visa versa. IDEs that support J2EE technologies (beta 3.0) The following is a very preliminary list of IDEs that support J2EE technologies. Version 1.3 added Rational XDE.

Vendor IDE, UML, and ARCH Product Free/Open Source version Product Type Feature List J2EE Technology Scope Design/Test Integration Download: Plug-ins, J2EE Architectural OEM/Add-ons, App Servers, Partners and other useful information. JSP EJB Web services Pattern/ Refactor Internal diagram XMI, UML Testing Borland JBuilder Enterprise JBuilder WebLogic JBuilder Personal IDE Datasheet(PDF) Matrix(PDF) Yes Yes Yes Object Assembler Class Yes SoftModeler JUnit JBuilder Plug-ins only for enterprise version. See JBuilder Submissions. Enterprise version integrates with WLS, WS, O9iAS, BAS, iPlanet. There is also a special Sybase edition. Gexperts Gel IDE Yes     JRefactory       Gel Plug-in capabliity and so far a modest array of plug-ins. Authors claim for speed Gel is "written in a language other than Java." I bet it's not Fortran. IBM WebSphere Studio WSAD, Workbench, Eclipse IDE About WSAD Yes Yes Yes Rational XDE   Rational XDE, Yes JUnit WSAD, Workbench Eclipse Plug-ins apply to all versions including open source. WS Studio naturally connects to WS Server. Also Genuitec is creating app server plug-ins for WLS, WSS, O9iAS, JBoss. IntelliJ IDEA IDE Feature list Yes Yes   Has its own Refactoring     JUnit   Plug-ins added through Open API Interactive Objects ArcStyler IDE/UML/ARCH Overview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes JUnit Arch Styler App server support includes WLS, IONA, BAS, JBoss, O9iAS Pramati Pramati Studio IDE Features Datasheet(PDF) Yes Yes Yes       JUnit Studio Connects to app servers: Pramati, WLS, O9iAS, WSS. Ask support for plug-in developers guide. See Tools++ page for list of plug-ins. Can use Pramati JAAS add-on. Oracle Oracle 9i JDeveloper (free or support contract) IDE Overview(PDF) New Features Yes Yes Yes BC4J Class, Activity Yes  Yes JDev RC2 As of RC2, JDeveloper is plug-in capable with an Extension SDK. See also Partners. App server support includes O9iAS, WLS. How-to's explain WSS, JBoss and the J2EE RI. See also Samples Rational Rational XDE UML/ARCH Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  Yes   App server support includes: WSS, WLS Sun Forte for Java NetBeans and Forte CE IDE FfJ Features Datasheet Yes Yes Yes CompuWare OptimalJ, Object Assembler   Poseidon, NoMagic ClassIQ ForteEAP, NetBeans, Forte CE Plug-ins apply to all versions, including open source. FfJ has a Framework Extension Program. See Partner Programs. See Partner List for Downloads current list of integration modules. FfJ supports JDO. Together ControlCenter WhiteBoard Edition IDE/UML/ARCH Features Datasheet(PDF) Yes Yes Yes Yes, WakeSoft Architecture Server All Yes XPTest JUnitx CC Plug-ins only for enterprise version. App server support includes ATG, WLS, Gemstone, WSS, In-Q-My,O9iAS, Secant, SilverStream, Sybase and the J2EE RI. See Plug-in downloads, All plug-ins. WebGain (owned by Together) VisualCafé IDE Enterprise Yes Yes Due V 7.0     Yes   WebGain Has plug-ins for a number of major app servers including: WLS, WSS, iPlanet HP, JRun. See Partners Program.

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