Re:Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetB...
by paulmd on Monday October 31, 2016 @12:26PM
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Java EE is the foundation of all Java webdev work. With the exception of a few micro-servers for (eg) testing work, all Java web servers (Tomcat/Jetty/etc) will provide implementations of the Java EE APIs for Servlets, Filters, the web.xml format, etc.
Lack of Spring support in the Community Edition is another biggie. It's the de-facto standard dependency-injection framework for Java. For regular usage, the whole "swap out components on the fly!" thing is oversold and overrated but the DI pattern does lead to easily testable code.
Finally, the lack of Javascript support is just bizarre.
Taken as a whole, the whole thing implies that all webdev work is somehow "enterprise". Like nobody ever did a CRUD app for a final project or a capstone or something?
Lack of Spring support in the Community Edition is another biggie. It's the de-facto standard dependency-injection framework for Java. For regular usage, the whole "swap out components on the fly!" thing is oversold and overrated but the DI pattern does lead to easily testable code.
Finally, the lack of Javascript support is just bizarre.
Taken as a whole, the whole thing implies that all webdev work is somehow "enterprise". Like nobody ever did a CRUD app for a final project or a capstone or something?