BEA Workshop???

[Moi Tinh]

I'm wondering has anyone used BEA workshop IDE and what you think of it? Do you like it? Right now we're using JBuilder. I'm thinking of switching over to workshop for 2 reasons

1) I think the integration is more seamless with BEA Workshop as an IDE since it's part of BEA.
2) The cost of getting the workshop IDE might be free since we're using weblogic as an app server already. Not sure about the licensing issue but this is the secondary reason.

I'd like to know what your experience is like with BEA Workshop. Do you recommend it over JBuilder? Thanks

[KArol Muszynski]

I think Workshop is dead project now. BEA is moving their IDE to Eclipse as a plugin. Have a look at Pollinate project http://www.eclipse.org/pollinate/

Best Regards,
KArol Muszynski

[Jignesh Patel]

1) I think the integration is more seamless with BEA Workshop as an IDE since it's part of BEA.

True.

2) The cost of getting the workshop IDE might be free since we're using weblogic as an app server already. Not sure about the licensing issue but this is the secondary reason.

There is no license for IDE during development.


Workshop is not as good as eclipse(it is simply great) but yes, when you are dealing with weblogic, it eases your work. And if you r thinking of using xml beans then its just seconds job to generate through workshop. In eclipse you may need to add plugin to make it work(I am not sure on this part).