Re: LINTing Javascript in a Java WebApp
Steve wrote:
I have a number a Java webapp with a number of embedded ( in JSPs )
Javascripts and straight *.js files.
Hmm. Not a good clean separation there.
More than few times I've built the webapp and deployed it only to find
I've made a trivial error, like forgetting a semicolon in the Javascript.
Why do you need so much Javascript?
I've seen that there are some Javascript LINT tools out there.
Is there any particular tool or combination of tools that will highlight
Javascript errors as I go ( similar to what spellchecks do these days by
putting squiggly red line underneath ) or give me error messages at
compile time ( for my Java webapp )?
The Aptana plugin for Eclipse
www.aptana.org
provides more advance Javascript editing.
It seems wrong to put a lot of JS into a JSP. Or any, really.
I've seen it done in some projects and that consistently caused unholy messes.
But you might try using static pages with the same Javascript and debug the JS that way.
Freeze one possible output that the JSP might generate and try to use its Javascript.
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