[lug] What Development Environments, Debuggers, also Documentation

[Bear Giles]

Jason Davis wrote:
>>On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:50, Gordon Golding wrote:
>>>I've been recommended JCreator for the Java parts and Edit+ for PHP and writing SQL directly to POSTgres.

I'm coming to the party a little late and this is more of a java 
question than a Linux question, but maybe this will help.

You should take a hard look at a hibernate/xdoclet combo. 
Hibernate provides an abstraction layer over the JDBC so you can 
transparently change database backends.  It can also transparently 
handle collections, generate your database tables for you, etc.

The only downside are the configuration files... but XDoclet 
includes a hibernate task that will generate the hibernate tables 
for you.  For me to create a table and field all I need are 
something like:

  /**
   * @hibernate.table name="users"
   */
   public class User {

      /**
       * @hibernate.property name="username" length="12"
       */
      public String getUserName() {
         return userName;
      }

      ...
   }

As a bonus you can set up some XDoclet targets that will 
automatically create boilerplate code.  E.g., given the same tags 
and a bit of intelligence in using empty Interfaces you can 
transparently create FooDAO interfaces and FooDAOHibernate 
implementations.  Standard XDoclet tags will automatically 
generate EJB classes & config files.