Tomcat for the Mac

[rwx]

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.

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Yeah, I'm thinking of starting with the standard taglibs + groovy and going to tapestry / groovestry only if needed. This project is going to start out with a very small front end, but I have the feeling things are going to expand outwards quickly if I do it right.

I'm also completely down with eclipse. yay. I don't know how much the speed of programming in java relies on the fact that (perceptually at least) Eclipse is the best editor I've used (although less good on the Mac IMHO because of its reliance on the context menu but requiring more menu input on the Mac for some reason.)