7.6. Vendor Selection

The major off-the-shelf components of the solution eTapestry acquired included an interactive development environment (IDE) and a combined application and database server. For the development environment, eTapestry chose Forte for Java, Community Edition, based on the flexibility and broad functionality options the open source-based tool provides. “Forte for Java gives us a double-barreled advantage. As open source, it is freely available, and it has the broadest selection of features and integration capabilities of any Java development environment that we evaluated,” says Ganyo.

Among the features Ganyo found useful were its auto-completion capabilities with which the tool can complete partially written coding statements. ...

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