My development tools and environment

 
Firstly I use the Eclipse as my master tool and fall in love with it, anyhow at the moment, I seems to be divided to the NetBeans.

Currently I use the NetBeans 6.7.1 as my primary tool. Eclipse still online as a Galileo, for system integration and compattible testing. Please note there are many IDEs for ensuring testing, including with commercial IDEs.

My prefer Application Servers are based on 2 favorite open sources as Glassfish (Version 2.1 and 3) and Apache Tomcat (Version 5.5 and 6.0).

The database, I also give the importance to the the open source as the Apache Derby and MySQL. Please note, The SQuirreL SQL Client is only tool for exploring the database.

The middle-ware is also an open sources as well. For achieving the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is prefer the OpenESB, The security middle-ware is OpenSSO which use the OpenDS as a user store.

For the web service development, I always use 2 tools together, the Apache Axis and the Metro.

Even my projects are developed and tested on my laptop machine which is pre-installed as a Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, I always deploy my project to the dedicated server which is a SentOS environment as well.

As you have seen above, I focus on the open source software with purpose to ensure that everyone can start and follow without any costing. The open source software always challenge me on the production environment as well. It give me an energy boost up for supporting. It's very exciting.

Mainly I focus on the new technology, the JavaEE 6 and SOA, but I cannot deny the backward compatibility for my previous production. You will see I always give the attention to the system integration among many versions of the application servers and tools.

Not only open source software, but also the commercial software which I focus, including with Application Server, Database and middle-ware. I hope I may have a chance for sharing about them.