So I'm trying a few new things with this project. For one, I'm using eclipse (M7 I think), which works pretty well. I'm still suspicious as to the integration with Ant and the project build path; I don't think I have the web app deployment worked out optimally yet (I am using some tomcat plugin).
I went ahead and roughed out some data classes and a way to save 'em to the database as well. Then started wrapping some servlets around them. It was then that I realized what I really wanted to set this thing apart was speed and ease of use. So I kind of stopped formal development on the real backend and moved to the UI. I've got enough backend to provide data to populate the UI, at least with basically faked objects, and enough structure so setting it up is pretty easy. This is mostly a different tack then I normally take, but I thought it would be fun and narrow my focus.
I also decided that instead of jsp I'd do velocity templates. And you know what? The presentation layer suddenly got a whole lot more transparent and simple. Pretty cool.
Finally, I picked up the pragmatic guide to unit testing, and decided I'd produce some unit tests with this bugger so I could finally get a feel for it.
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