An unnamed developer, in an as-yet unpublished article, which I was
lucky enough to read, really clarified a couple of things for me
today. In a recent blog entry, it suddenly dawned on
me that even though I had some cool little Ant scripts (hooked
up to cool little NetBeans IDE menu items) for starting, debugging,
stopping, testing, and deploying to a variety of servers (JBoss 4,
Tomcat 4, and JRun 4), I couldn't really develop much in the IDE
for these servers, because each...