Well, Jason, perhaps they have changed but it doesn't look like it. I read the reason they had to ship their own jvm was because real java cannot be used to do their instant/constant compilation -- that's what I've read. I've also read there is a JSR to add that capability to real Java.
In my experience, and admittedly I do a lot of Swing development, Eclipse is not usable on Linux (unless the one jvm instance per open JFrame was a bug they've since fixed). I've seen plugins that have specific warnings they only work on Windows. To me, that voids the whole concept of Java. Chuck On 11/15/07, Jason Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuck Davis wrote: > > I'm with you, Glen. Eclipse 3.3 on openSuse 10.2 just sucks. I > > presume it would be the same on 10.3. I find nothing wrong with Java > > 1.6. I've been using 1.6 features for many months without ANY > > problems. The major problem with Eclipse is they ship their own jvm > > if I recall correctly. And stuff written to their jvm may not work on > > real Java. Secondly, if you want to create Swing components it starts > > an instance of the jvm for each JFrame -- which means your memory is > > gone in a big hurry. Swing development is really painfully S-L-O-W. > > I won't go into the issues with SWT which are fairly well documented > > elsewhere > That's a lie. You say the major problem with Eclipse is that they ship > their own JVM. They don't. They require you to supply your own, and > recommend that you use 1.5. So, now what is Eclipse's major problem? > > As far as Java, I generally dislike Java and don't use it much, so I > don't feel I can comment on Eclipse for Java work, but I use it daily > for web development, PHP, and Python, and semi-daily for C/C++, and I > love it. On SUSE 10.2 and 10.3. I love how I can go from work computer > to laptop to my home (SUSE) box and work on the same (or different) > projects with the same tool, and different underlying build environments. > > --Jason > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
