[ajug-members] Your favorite IDE

[Dan Marchant]

1. Eclipse (with various plugins, DBExplorer, etc...)
    (Tried MyEclipse a bit bulky)
2. Context - quick and dirty edits on windows, nice format
translations from dos to unix
3. VI - quick and dirty edits on linux and unix flavors

I have pretty much used the whole gamet at one time or another and
here is my feedback:
   - IDEA - nice features for templates and various code hinting, it
doesn't support really large projects broken across modules as well as
eclipse in my opinion. The incremental compile is a bit clunky.
  - JBuilder - was ok a while ago it's features have been passed by
eclipse and others. It did have one of the best supporting frameworks
for debugging application servers pre-eclipse
  - Visual Age for Java - Ok it isn't made anymore, but the UI had an
interesting approach of compilation units you can browse around and
everything could be browsed as reusable components. This was sometimes
annoying but the better features of the local repository, etc... are
now in eclipse.
  - TogetherJ - was a bit bloaty some recent changes to the eclipse
framework are making it faster. I liked the roundtrip features a lot
can't beat them with any other editor.
  - Netbeans - well I think SUN should really kill this project. It
could have been an eclipse type framework but they bloated it up and
had some developers working on it that didn't know anything about
performance and object creation. Has a clunky interface... I do hear
it is getting faster now could be related to Java 1.5's swing
improvements though.

One thing that is getting to me though is how large all the IDEs are
getting. This is quite annoying for anyone that just wants to code,
build and test. Some of the additions are ok, but half the time not
used.

An interesting followup questions to the group would be:
1.  What features do you use in the IDE of choice?
2.  What profiler do you use?


Regards,

Dan Marchant
On 8/2/06, Burr Sutter <burrsutter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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