Are there other pieces of commercial software that I will need to buy
in order
to have a fairly complete deployment environment? If so, what might
they be?
I am trying to understand the financial (not the learning curve)
expenses involved
in making such a switch.
I have done a lot of work writing web applications that deploy on Macs,
Unix boxen, or Windows machines. Thus far, Tapestry, Cayenne, MySql,
and Eclipse or IDEA are key tools for me, and everything but IDEA is
free for a GPLed project. (You do need a license for MySql if your
product is not GPLed, even if you are only deploying it in-house.)
You will find Tapestry and Cayenne very familiar, given your WO
background. Very, very familiar. (Though there is no WOBuilder. I
understand the spindle plugin will help.)
I used Eclipse from when it came on the platform to about a year ago.
If there were a way to generate an eclipse workspace with a few hundred
projects in it programmatically, I would probably still be using it.
(With IDEA, projects and modules are plain old XML, so I can generated
them with a simple xslt or velocity template during my nightly build.)
IDEA costs about $500, though they sell personal licenses for half that
every once in a while. Again, for what you have described, Eclipse may
well suit just as well, and it does not cost anything save time.
Scott
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