Pretty much all the Java devs where I work use Eclipse, for what it's worth. When I ask questions
about some part of the codebase, their first response is "do you have Eclipse installed?" It is a
significant boon to working on Java projects, especially larger ones, for the reasons Ralph
mentions. It also has CVS integration, Tomcat controls etc. and is cross-platform.
-Max
Rob Hudson wrote:
Ralph Zeller wrote:
On 10/12/05 12am, larry price wrote:
By the way, what's a good IDE to use with Java? My son is taking a
beginning Java class, and he's using "eclipse" as a development
interface. It seems pretty cumbersome, and so does "netbeans," but
maybe that's just my perspective as a complete novice to Java also--is
there something else that works better for a newbee learning Java?
I've used eclipse for some of my classes at th UofO. Personally, I kind
of like it. I usually prefer just a good text editor (and missed my vi
commands in the built-in editor) but the IDE added a lot. It may be
overkill but it is helpful. It has a constant compile thing in the
background that notifies you of errors as you go (you used such and such
object but didn't import it, you didn't catch the appropriate error,
etc). It has the intellisense stuff which I found useful. And building
the project seemed to work easily enough.
-Rob
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