[ajug-members] Your favorite IDE

[Howard Kapustein]

I've looked at it briefly; it's on my TODO list to dive back into
deeper, but you probably won't find many users - yet.

(a)     It's new

(b)     5.0 may rival (or surpass) Eclipse in many ways, but 4.x was
definitely weaker than Eclipse

(c)     Eclipse has built a strong community for plugins and extensions

(d)     A lot of Java work is 'corporate', which usually entails
'standardization' and slower pace of change

 

In the (semi-recent) past NetBeans was nice but never quite nice enough
compared to the alternatives, _except_ for Swing development. NetBeans
4.x was no Visual Basic <sigh>, but it was the only _free_ 'GUI builder'
worth a damn that I could find. Matisse sounds promising, which is one
of the big reasons NetBeans is only my list to toy with. In my copious
free time...

 

 

Even if you do 'server'/headless work, there's always little utilities
you want to slap a UI on. I've done GUI/event programming by hand,
because I've had to, but life's too short to bother w/o some kind of
'form builder'. I'm interested to hear if anyone's used NetBeans 5.0 for
some casual UI work. How's it compare to previous versions? How's it
compare to VB (still the closest thing to a perfect RAD tool I've ever
seen)?

 

            - Howard 

 

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From: ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org
[mailto:ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org] On Behalf Of Carr Harriman
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:43 AM
To: General AJUG membership forum (100-200 messages/month)
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] Your favorite IDE

 

Am I the only one using NetBeans 5.0?  Has anyone else taken a look at
it?  I'm partial to that version over Eclipse, but I'll admit I've only
used Eclipse a few times, and never have used MyEclipse or IntelliJ
(although after some of the comments on this thread, I think I'll have
to give it a try!). 

 

-Carr Harriman

 

On 8/3/06, Steve Finch <Sfinch at manh.com> wrote: 

Our company purchased multiple licenses from Exadel, but a lot of
developers here are upset by how much memory it uses.  It was chosen for

its JSF support and replaced an old version of MyEclipse.

Me personally?  I like Eclipse (with or without Exadel) but fall back to
vim whenever mass edits are required.

Steve Finch
Manhattan Associates 

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[mailto:ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org] On Behalf Of Burr Sutter 
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:25 PM
To: General AJUG membership forum (100-200 messages/month)
Subject: [ajug-members] Your favorite IDE

Hey Folks,

I'm just curious about what your favorite IDE is.  Just an informal 
quick survey on what tools you are using to build Java based
applications.

a) Eclipse (where you've pulled in all the plug-ins you want)
b) MyEclipse
c) Exadel
d) Netbeans
e) Text Editor (vi, emacs, ultraedit, jedit, etc) 
f) IBM WSAD/RAD
g) BEA Workshop
h) Other


Burr
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