Article:		A Look at the Eclipse IDE
Subject:		Eclipse, WSAD
Date:		2003-11-24 08:35:59
From:		anonymous2
My company has recently required me to develop all our web applications in Java. Previously I did all my development in ASP.NET using Visual Studio.NET. When developing servlets using WSAD, the IDE and OS (WinXP) together require almost 600MB of RAM! Can someone tell me when this became acceptable? WSAD has some cool features but so far I find it clunky, slow,(on a P4) and confusing. Everytime I launch the product I almost have to cry. I can only hope someone in the Java community will raise the bar.

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• Eclipse, WSAD
  2004-02-13 14:26:22  k2n [Reply | View]
  
  
  Try bare-bone Eclipse2.1. It is much responsive and improved than WASD, which is 2.0 base. Some features in WASD are nice, but I can live without them with external tool's help such as Xdoclet.

• Eclipse, WSAD
  2003-12-29 21:53:37  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I have it running on an old Dell laptop with Win2k and it's quite responsive. Sounds like XP is the culprit.