>I think you maybe a little hard on VJ++. Yes, VJ is focused much on non-standard Microsoft Java technologies, but the VJ environment lets you build standard Java apps just fine - you just have to ignore the Wizards. The development environment is also a good one for running and debugging Java applets. This has always been one thing that I've hated with all Borland products...

When I checked it last time, VJ++ didn't support Java beans. I am almost sure that this is still true for the last version...

Since I/we were are using Java only for the client tier and this 90% forms, I found VJ++ really bad for visual programming. Again, I didn't check the last version, but I heard it was much improved. Still, without Java beans...

As for debugger, the last thing you want is to use Symantec Visual Java's debugger! :(

>>Personally, I don't like Interdev. I don't work with it, but other guys developed a small web application for our company. Although the app is well done and simple, there are tons of deployment problems. It may be the fact that they don't know enough about Interdev, but, I've NEVER seen so many deployment problems with any other app or development tool.
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>I agree on Visual Interdev. It's a really immature product and very badly put together. It has a number of great features though, but I like your friends never was able to get things to work correctly. I always advocate understanding the underlying technology so you don't have to crutch on Wizards to do things for you and this is very true for Interdev. If you understand ASP's architecture (which is not hard really) then you can use Interdev for what it does best - as a code and HTML editor and forget about the 'application' management stuff (which is dog slow and doesn't work most of the time).

Maybe you can enlighten me on the following problem: we have an app developed in Interdev. This application has a button that launches my app developed completly outside Interdev. Still, we couldn't make it work until we put all Java classes from my app into the Interdev project. Now, everything works great, unless we didn't find a reliable way to change the Java classes (in order to upgrade my app). Even when we erase all the classes from the web server, reset the server, etc, the app still works with the old version. Where from do these classes/version come?

Vlad
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