I have been working on java technologies.I have been using eclipse for development totally.I tried some other tools but felt that eclipse is far better than them.I want to tell you about WSAD from IBM which has websphere as inbuilt server in eclipse.We can create servers then do deployment of our code in to the server and check it.It also supports Struts and other basic frameworks.We have different persepectives to switch over.
The main advantage I felt while using it are
- debug mode-I can create break points and find the place where error is occurring easily using breakpoints.As we have Websphere server in it , it becomes easy to find the problems which occur in the server after deployment.
2.The output which is shown by running WSAD is same as the output which comes after deployment in Websphere server(used for production).So all the deployment issues can be known in advance in the time of development.
3.Creation of EAR file far easy from the current project and it can be deployed into the server.
4.We can create multiple servers and then run them simultaneously .
5.We can also have weblogic and other server configured instead of websphere.