Re: Request Opinions on a typical Java development environment (non-Windows)

From: Dale King (kingd[at]tmicha[dot]net)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:35:16 -0500

"Kal" <kal5133@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:77f394e5.0404221131.1d574e5f@posting.google.com...
> Ok, so far here is the list that I've created.
>
> I've tried to go with ease of installation and support (i hope i'm not
> way off on this):
>
> os: fedora (i tried gentoo got hopelessly stuck, i also have debian,
> but haven't tried it out yet)
> Editor/IDE: Eclipse
> junit for tests (xp style)
> Version control: CVS?

I would recommend you go with Subversion instead of CVS. It is meant to be
an open source replacement for CVS and works quite nicely. There is an
Eclipse plug-in called Subclipse and also a nice Windows explorer addition
called TortoiseSVN.

See: http://subversion.tigris.org

> what's the difference between tomcat and apache, does one run with the
> other? which one will serve my jsp and web services?

Tomcat is a servlet engine and handles jsp and servlet pages. Apache is an
http server. Typically you need both. You use apache to serve your satic
webpages and proxy that over to tomcat for the dynamic stuff. Theoretically
you could use just Tomcat, but such use is not recommended. See the
following for more info:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-doc/tomcat-apache-howto.html 

--
  Dale King
  Blog: http://daleking.homedns.org/Blog

Relevant Pages