And I've been using Oracle jDeveloper 3.1 which is derived from JBuilder.
It's also pretty flaky, debugger doesn't work, etc. Stay away if possible.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Drake [SMTP:tdrake@turnstone.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:11 PM
> To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: JSP compilation / debug problem
>
> Steven:
>
> Our team has been experiencing similar problems with the JB3.5 build/make.
> In addition, the debugger has serious problems. IMHO, JB 3.5 is a piece of
> crap. We are going to look at their 4.0 to see if it is any better. If
> not, we'll cut over to Symantec.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Tom Drake | tdrake@turnstone.com | 408/907-1659
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven_Shaw@adc.com [ <mailto:Steven_Shaw@adc.com>]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:01 PM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: JSP compilation / debug problem
>
>
>
>
> Could you maybe use a soft link to the <context_dir> from somewhere else
> and
> call it 'jsp'.
>
> ln -s ${TOMCAT_HOME}/work/<context_dir> ${SOMEWHERE_ELSE}/jsp
>
> Then point JBuilder at ${SOMEWHERE_ELSE}.
>
> I have tried to get into using JBuilder 3.5 Foundation afew times, but
> having
> the .jpr files set up correctly always bothers me. It doesn't seem to
> compile
> things even when you change them (unless you specfically add every java
> source
> file to your project - the add package thing just doesn't seem to work
> properly). Also, I don't know how to set up Tomcat for use from JBuilder
> 'cause
> I've never got that far! I have a link to an article on that subject
> though:
>
> <http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,22057,00.html>
>
> Could you shed some light on my JBuilder woes?
>
> cheers,
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
>
>
> rhorowitz@ni4u.com on 15/09/2000 08:35:46
>
> Please respond to tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>
>
>
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>
> cc: (bcc: Steven Shaw/Net)
>
>
>
> Subject: JSP compilation / debug problem
>
>
>
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>
>
> I just started using Tomcat and have run into something that should not
> be hard to improve, and will make it alot easier to debug JSPs in Tomcat
> with an IDE, specifically JBuilder in my case, but I imagine this
> applies across the board.
>
> Tomcat seems to drop all the generated .java files from .jsp's into the
> ${TOMCAT_HOME}/work/<context_dir>. The problem is, my jsp's are
> arranged hierarchically in subdirectories, the top one of which is
> jsp/. When I try to set up JBuilder I can set a breakpoint in the
> generated .java file for a jsp, it cannot find the .java file associated
> with a .class file generated for the jsp because the package name of the
> .java file is set correctly by Tomcat as "package jsp;" in this
> instance, but the .class and .java files are not in the jsp/ directory.
> Instead, they're in the top level directory...
>
> So, after the .java and .class files were generated, I copied them by
> hand to the
>
> ${TOMCAT_HOME}/work/<context_dir>/jsp/
>
> ...and it worked.
>
> Not too hard for this situation, but I happen to have a bunch of
> subdirectories under jsp/ and it will be a real pain to do this
> correctly each time I rerun Tomcat.
>
> So, here's the request...
>
> I realize it may be hard to fully implement the generation of .java and
> .class files from .jsp's into the right directory structure and you may
> not want to tackle the whole thing right now (although that seems to me
> the right fix). Instead, can you at least copy the generated files into
> the right subdirectories when they are generated? That would make it
> easy to do source-level debugging on the generated files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Horowitz
>
>
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