[ajug-members] Your favorite IDE

[Gang Wang]

NetBeans does it too.  I use NetBeans, and love it since moved to 5.0.

On 8/3/06, Howard Kapustein <hkapustein at manh.com> wrote:
> ConTEXT is great if you ever do code reviews.
> Only tool I've found which prints source code well -- line numbers plus
> proper fonting (comments in italics, keywords in bold). Works great when
> you need a bunch of folks around the room referencing the same thing.
>
>         - Howard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org
> [mailto:ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Marchant
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:12 AM
> To: General AJUG membership forum (100-200 messages/month)
> Subject: Re: [ajug-members] Your favorite IDE
>
> 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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