Re: [Sheflug] Java IDE

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, darkstar wrote:

> Wondering if anyone has used a java IDE in linux? If so, what is it and
> is it any good?

I think I've tried most free/non-free ones. I'll be honest, I'm not an IDE
man. Most of them seemed like a crappy gui builder tacked onto a crappy
editor. There is a free IDE from sun called forte (used to be called net
beans). It's around somewhere. (Google "forte java IDE")
Visual Cafe is the best by a distance I would say. But it don't come
cheap. There are a few more esoteric ones (AnyJ, others) that are hard to
get working, unfinished or just crap.
 
> We are doing java as the main language on our HND software engineering
> course and I don't want to use a windows IDE, even though I've tried
> Visual cafe and quite liked it. Something similar for Linux would be
> great, even if it is a commercial product that has to be paid for.

Hmmm, you could try bothering the folks who made it? They just changed
hands and I forget what the name of the company is now, used to be
Symantec, I think it got spun off in it's own company.

Or, use Emacs. Yes, I'm serious. There's an editing add on caled Jacob
that's pretty neat. Adds a class browser and stuff. Emacs does have a
learning curve though.


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