Sun Team: UNACCEPTABLE BUGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question

to anyone who reads this, please excuse my lack of politeness and patience for this issue. it is simply unnacceptable for this bug to occur, since it renders the IDE completely useless, along with the hours of work spent on development.
i am using VWP. there is a single page that simply reads data from a couple tables in a database and displays the results based on a parameter in the URL.
it's all very nice until the IDE removes the datasource references in the web.xml and sun-web.xml.
this bug has had several posts already and the same reply about fixing the bug gets posted. these kinds of bugs are completely unnacceptable after all this time.
like i said, excuse my rudeness, but i am very fed up with all the issues ive had with VWP and JSCU2.
we originally started using JSCU2 to replace an application developed in JSP. we worked for a few months with it and encountered so many issues that we decided to give VWP a try, since most people seemed to have more success with it. so much for that!
this is my company's last attempt to develop and deploy an application using Sun's visual web development tools. starting to think that i should've taken the advice of my peers and moved to microsoft's ASP.NET from the very beginning. even if we had to write the code all over again in VB or C# it would've taken us a lot less time and money than trying to figure what can actually be done with Sun's tools that do not cause problems.
seems like i have to think twice before adding anything to a page in VWP or JSCU2 because of "i don't know how the IDE will react, might have a bug"
i had a lot of confidence in Sun and their new tools, all i vain.
could someone PLEASE suggest a mechanism to work around this auto deletion of web.xml data source references???? (also, the IDE removes all line breaks from the web.xml file, putting all elements into a single line, rendering it unreadable and very hard to edit.

Answer 1

Hi there,
That's an interesting bug. I never had the issue you have described here. May be our environment is different than what you have. Can you please share any links/sites where this bug has been posted before. I like to check this out. Because in our place I was using JSC2 and now Netbeans for our product development. Since this is tool related issue, you can always get the comercial tool such as JBuilder, Exadel plugins, etc. where also not guranteed the problem is not there but you may get better support because you are paying for it. Moving to ASP.Net is the other choice you mentioned, I have experince with MS-Studio getting corrupted file also. But you may be better of with MS-Visual Studio (VB,C#) if your project is just one page application.
Sri Thuraisamy