What is your iPlanet desktop development environment?

[Gerry Giese]

What is you system configuration for developing iPlanet applications? Do you have iWS and/or iAS installed on your desktop? What IDE do you have? What other tools do you run concurrently with them, like version control, UML tools, etc?
Last, what CPU and how much memory do you have, and does your system seem slow or snappy?
I've got a P3-800 w/512MB, iAS 6.0, iWS 4, Forte 3.0 Enterprise, PVCS, and Describe UML. I rarely run Describe and Forte at the same time as the performance is awful. Otherwise the performance is ok, but not quite as snappy as I'd like.
What brought about this question is I discovered that Forte 4.0 Enterprise requires P3-500 w/512MB, whereas 3.0 required P3-866 w/384MB. iAS itself wants 512MB, and iWS wants 128MB, according to the system "requirements". Describe is fairly hefty, too.

[Mike Curwen]

My system has iWS and iAS installed, along with JBuilder.

My system is P3-733 with 256 MB RAM.

I've tried Forte, but prefer JBuilder (JBuilder6 has 'out of the box' iPlanet integration).

I gotta say.. the piggiest app on your box is probably Forte. Any version of that IDE that I've tried has **always** not only taken a hell of a long time to load, but has always performed poorly, and makes anything else running on the box perform poorly.

By contrast, JBuilder has (since version 4) seemed like a binary-compiled program.

[Fred Welland]

We have about 7 developers including myself. Most folks use WinNT WS 4 on PII 450 to 500 mhz with 256mb ram. Most run iWS and iAS locally, use ANT for builds and deploys, and a variety of editors/IDEs rangeing from Jedit to kawa to VCafe to Homesite (beleive it or not). Everyone uses Clearcase (snapshot views). One of our guys does run iAS in his Kawa debugger with good results. Most folks are also running another app or two along with this, typically a browser or Lotus Notes.
Most folks are just fine. No one really runs the heavy weight Java based IDEs like Forte or JBuilder.
I do all my work on a Tecra 8100 running RH linux (256 mbram, I think it is a PII 600 - I forget). Dont run iAS obviously. I use JEDIT and its VSF FTP filesystem browser to edit code directly on a Solaris box where my iAS and iWS instance live (and clearcase view).
I quess we are sorta on the miniamlist side of things.