Ron Phillips is V.P. of Software Development at Serlio Software (www.serliosoft.com) in Milwaukee, WI. Serlio provides mentoring and consulting to large and mid-sized companies adopting software best practices into their development organizations. Ron has been designing and developing commercial software development tools for over 12 years and has co-authored several books and articles on Java technologies.
I work with a lot of J2EE development tools. While some feel like solutions
looking for a problem, every once in a while I run into one that feels like
it was inspired by a developer's frustration at not being able to work
quickly and effectively. Ensemble Glider from Ensemble Systems is that sort
of tool.
What Is Glider?
Glider is an integrated development toolkit that accelerates J2EE
development. It allows you to interactively create, build, and debug J2EE
components before deploying to a server. Glider compresses the development
cycle required to build and test EJBs and JSPs.
J2EE developers have to endure a fair amount of monkey motion in order to
build and test J2EE components. Instead of having to endure a full cycle of
code, compile, package, and deploy before debugging, Glider accelerates
development by compressing that cycle into an interactive seamless co... (more)
Ron Phillips is V.P. of Software Development at Serlio Software (www.serliosoft.com) in Milwaukee, WI. Serlio provides mentoring and consulting to large and mid-sized companies adopting software best practices into their development organizations. Ron has been designing and developing commercial software development tools for over 12 years and has co-authored several books and articles on Java technologies.
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