Section 10.6. What You Still Don t Know

10.6. What You Still Don't Know

NetBeans comes with a built-in version of Tomcat for serving up Web pages and JSP and Java Servlets. It's very handy for developing and testing on your desktop. We'll look at that more in Part IV of this book.

In the NetBeans help file, you'll find this intriguing note:

Using Scripting Languages in NetBeans: NetBeans provides you with a scripting feature that lets you use scripts to operate the IDE remotely or from the Scripting Console or by using a scripting file. You can use the scripting languages provided in the Scripting Console, or you can create a scripting class through the New From Template wizard. The following scripting languages are provided with NetBeans: DynamicJava, BeanShell, and JPython. For information on the scripting languages provided, see DynamicJava at http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/djava/, BeanShell at http://www.beanshell.org/, JPython at http://www.jpython.org/.

We barely got you into Eclipse. Eclipse supports CVS (check out the Team submenu). Eclipse provides code refactoring features that allow you to rename classes and methods with automatic update of all affected source. Eclipse provides a feature to "externalize" strings (which takes all string constants out of a module and makes them into properties references, allowing for easy internationalization). It is a powerful Java development platform.