Blogging Roller: Microsoft makes killer tools.

Microsoft makes killer tools.

Matt Croydon posted a link to some awesome screenshots of the next version of Visual Studio, codenamed Whidbey, and it's ASP.NET web development tools. Microsoft creates killer tools and it is difficult to imagine how IBM's Eclipse, Sun's Rave, IDEA IntelliJ, or MyEclipse will match the kind of ease-of-use Microsoft can achieve. I have yet to see a WYSIWYG HTML editor, the basis for any web development IDE, written in Java (Swing, SWT, or otherwise) that is worth a damn.

Dave Johnson in Microsoft • 🕒 07:18AM Oct 31, 2003

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I have no idea if it's worth a damn, but I believe the next version of Oracle's JDeveloper ide comes with a WYSIWYG HTML editor.

Posted by Will Gayther on October 31, 2003 at 07:24 PM EST #

But then the screen shots show stuff written in pure html. With JSPs, it is WAY harder to write a WYSIWYG editor because of TagLibs. How do I represent every available custom tag in a taglib, in a gui format and make the page look like the real thing?. Many of these taglibs donot even do presentation logic, they are making database calls.

Posted by Partha on October 31, 2003 at 09:03 PM EST #

I'm a J2EE developer and use Eclipse (at home) or Jbuilder (at work actually) with Maven as external build tool. I've heard a lot of good things about Microsoft Visual Studio .NET from coworkers and decided to give The ASP.NET Web Matrix a try and followed the online guide tour. I will not debate further on this Web Martix or .NET but I've to admit that I have been impressed. In a few words, my first impressions were : simple, quick, effective.

I'm now sure that Java really needs a standard for building interfaces with much richer support than what's currently available (improving productivity is the key). This standard is, correct me if I'm wrong, Java Server Face and that's why I think JSF won't be just a buzzword.

Posted by Pascal Thivent on November 08, 2003 at 02:21 PM EST #