productivity gain for using java tools against native java coding

Since no one posted ...
I don't have a clear answer for you. But an IDE can save you time. I
know for sure that a good IDE will save you time over a junky one. Of course,
if you don't pick a good one/use it wisely it could cause more problems in
the long run. Anyway modern IDEs provide intellisense, contextual help,
build in repository and SCM, different views of classes and projects, incremental
complile, integrated debugging, etc (I could go on). All of which save time.
These could quickly save you days of work. So divide what an ide would
cost by what it costs them to have you around per hour and that is how many
hours it would take before and IDE would pay off. And another thing, I assume
that since you are doing EJBs that you are probably using a RDBMS, an application
server, a webserver and maybe a application messaging tool. A good IDE will
help you develop and test in this environment.

Of course if you use a text editor you will be much more intimate with how
EJBs work.

Hope this helps,
Mark
"dazed" <marissa_burcham@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Does anyone know how much time i would save using an EJB IDE versus native
>java coding? need to prove to mgmt the value of an IDE...and any suggestions
>of tools for enterprise scale apps.
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