On 10/01/2011 4:46 AM, Thomas Sundberg wrote:
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 16:27, Ron Wheeler
<rwhee...@artifact-software.com> wrote:
I am not sure what the big difference is but I imagine Intellij must have
some very good features that makes it worth paying for a product.
Intellij IDEA is available as open source and therefore doesn't cost
you anything.
I did not see that on their site. I thought that I saw that it is free
for those developing open source project but otherwise must be licensed
at some cost.
The major difference is in my opinion that it just works without
hassle. My experience with Eclipse is that it doesn't work as good.
It was certainly hard to install and get set up with all the required
plug-ins.
That is why I recommend the STS version from Springsource. It comes
already loaded with all of the plug-ins required (except the Subversion
connectors) to develop with Maven et al. It specifically includes a
reasonable current version of M2 from Sonatype.
We used the eclipse.org distribution for 2 years before switching to STS.
I'm probably biased, I have used Eclipse for a quite short period of
time and Idea close to 10 years now.
IDEA has been mentioned here and in other forums as a good tool.
I assume that it has a good set of graphical tools for Maven.
/Thomas,
not really interested in starting a flame war... :)
Me neither but I certainly would recommend that anyone still using
Eclipse and Maven to try the STS version.
Anyone who does not have a good IDE with Maven support should look at
Eclipse/STS or IDEA.
Ron
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