Is Enterprise Edition suitable??

[steven]

I'm about to begin a MSc Degree project and I'm thinking of using Java Enterprise
Editions to create Servlets and JSPs for a contacts database that would be
accessed over the web. Will it be possible to have the server and client
running on the same machine for development purposes? That way I can develop
it at home.

Also, how do I get a copy of Enterprise Edition is it downloadable from the
Sun site or is it huge and rediculously expensive.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks

[Yann Le Locat]

"steven" <stevenb@occamgreen.com> wrote:
>
>I'm about to begin a MSc Degree project and I'm thinking of using Java Enterprise
>Editions to create Servlets and JSPs for a contacts database that would
be
>accessed over the web. Will it be possible to have the server and client
>running on the same machine for development purposes? That way I can develop
>it at home.

You could of course do that. However, if you want to do such a project, you
should also have a look at Cocoon, the publishing framework from the Apache
group (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon).

Instead of using JSP you would use XSP which is better designed. You can
create XML documents that are transformed on the server into HTML, WML or
PDF using XSL stylesheets. Cocoon is free and written in pure Java. It's
like a big servlet.

You could use it with J2EE as well. Like calling EJB objects from your XSP
pages. I find XSP much more flexible than JSP.
Cocoon is in version 1.7.4 (3.2 megs) but Cocoon 2 is in development. This
will have to be taken into account if it's a year project (which Cocoon will
you write for).

>Also, how do I get a copy of Enterprise Edition is it downloadable from
the
>Sun site or is it huge and rediculously expensive.

It's free and it's about 12megs (+ 7 megs docs).

Yann.