Is Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 a good IDE for developing

[complexs6]

Hello, I have been recently getting back into making websites after a few years of being out of it. I used to use Dreamweaver to create my websites. I have been moving from creating static sites to dynamic sites, which require server-side scripting. Can anyone recommend this product and is it better than using Dreamweaver. I read ebay creates there websites on software from Sun Microsystems. The problem I have been getting into is finding if not creating scripts that do different things like a User Management script for having a login and some sort of database for the users information. I know there is many different scripts for many different languages from perl to php but when I saw a video on Java Studio Enterprise 7 it looked like you could do basically anything for websites on it. I do not know if I am right or wrong so I would appreciate any feedback either good or bad and if you have in mind a better software let me know.

[BigDog]

If your are not familiar with Java, specifically Java Enterpriese Edition (J2EE), then you would not get much use out of any IDE for Java, including Sun's. Don't think of J2EE in the same arena as perl or php. J2EE is a full blown programming language with a complex programming model - it is not scripting. J2EE used a distributed computing approach to web programming. J2EE is Object Oriented. It also allows CORBA interoperablility (although it seems less and less people are using that). II is leaps and bounds past perl or php in both complexitiy and power.

If you are looking to learn to use J2EE for web development, I recommend a free IDE such as Eclipse to learn with, or one of the trail versions of commercial products. Make sure you really want to get into programming J2EE before you drop a chunk of cash for an IDE you may never use. Also, while Sun created the Java language, it is an open standard that many other companies use to compete. Real big players out there are IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and opensource JBOSS. Sun's offering actually has very little marketplace. So for choosing an application server to run your J2EE app, you have several to choose from, with some of them being free. You cannot just run this stuff on a normal web server - you need a J2EE applicaiton server, or at least a JSP/Servlet container like Tomcat.

[complexs6]

Thanks for the information BigDog, it help you gave an idea of what its all about.