I have been doing Java for quite a while now and the (free) dominant IDEs
are Netbeans and Eclipse. They are both very good - I use Eclipse and I
think
that may eventually become the winner but, right now, they seem to be
peacefully
co-existing pretty well. Eclipse is a little behind on graphical GUI
tools, however,
it is starting to catch up. Netbeans is supposed to have a very strong
graphical GUI
environment, but, it requires that the code be created in Netbeans. The
Eclipse GUI
environment is not as fancy as Netbeans but will work with code
generated anywhere -
I consider that to be very significant. Also, if you go with Eclipse,
check out MyEclipse
http://www.myeclipseide.com/ - for an annual subscription of $50 (as I
remember) you
can get a massive amount of extra goodies - including Matisse - the
Netbeans UI
designer.
Gary Whitten
Jin-Ho Yoon wrote:
Dear all:
I am a newbie of JAVA, and trying to modify/write simple codes.
I heard there are some development utilites (e.g., J Builder
or NetBeans). Do you guys have any suggestion/recommendation
for this type of software? Which will be the better for long-run?
I am very familiar with Fortran and so on. But, JAVA is
a new world to me.
Thanks,
Jin-Ho
