Tomcat for the Mac
October 13th, 2005 (06:59 am)
It took me a while, but eventually I was able to cut through all the weird and useless information detailing difficult steps, and realize that it was just the same as any other unix machine and I could just download, unzip, untar, and have it running in just a couple of minutes.
I suppose now I need to figure out which of the 1000s of frameworks and other things to use to write this LIS-related application that’s been kicking around inside my head for the last while. It has to be in Java/Tomcat because of some support libraries I need.
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I suppose now I need to figure out which of the 1000s of frameworks and other things to use
I don't know what you've used in the past, but for my money:
hibernate for the object-relational layer, if there needs to be one.
If the pages are going to be few and/or simple straight JSP with the standard taglibs is probably the path of least pain. If the pages will be numerous/complex then you might want to consider tapestry. It's outright bugfuck insane, but once I learned to think like it does development was pretty pleasant. (If you do go Tapestry there's a flag you have to set to disable caching, otherwise you need to restart Tomcat every time you change something, which obviously sucks immeasurably).
Personally I have nothing nice to say about struts, although obviously other people feel differently.
Whatever frameworks you end up with I can unconditionally and wholeheartedly recommend eclipse plus the sysdeo tomcat plugin as the development environment.