Prasanth's blog

" Java is running under the hood of ColdFusion and it is easier to use Java / Java Archives" with ColdFusion. I have been hearing about this since I have started studying ColdFusion. So I decided to take a look at it. I have studied Java only during my course and does not have much experience with it. Now, with the help of Eclipse , it is very easy to create a Java project and export it as archive.

Implementing Debugging and Logging functionality in your application will help you a lot when tracing the details of an error - while developing and also after deployment. There are lot of libraries out there like log4j , which you can integrate with your app for easier log management. Log4j/log4net have the provision to either log the information to a file or send email . So, will it be helpful if you can directly see the logs in Eclipse that will get updated whenever the log file gets updated ? Using NTail, you can achieve this. The content of the log file will be shown in a window inside Eclipse which will automatically get updated. Steps:

See the two images from Visual Studio and Eclipse. While Studio tells 'Close all but this', Eclipse simply tells 'Close Others'.