Java Development
 

I'm just beginning to learn all the ins and outs concerning java and j2ee. I have a java web server set up (Tomcat) and can create servlets and JSP pages easily, but I did have one question.

In a corporate development team how does the team create an application? For instance, when I create a servlet I'm basically doing the creating and compiling on my own machine/web server (localhost), but what if the web server was on a different machine? Does everyone work locally and then copy the class files to the webserver? Or is there some other tool I need to use? Thanks for any ideas.

I use jbuilder or sun one, they have deployment and asset management tools for working in groups. When you compile and build it takes care of deploying it to the correct place and system.

depending on the system it uses ftp or a local copy to deploy.

And a development team is probably using a source management tool like CVS to manage versions and document distribution. So there's a network-shared source vault, with a system for document check-in and check-out.

Having everybody keep their own code on their own machines is a bad idea.

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