I've tried Sun's Forte, jEdit and Eclipse, and of the three I like Eclipse the best. It has a setting for Emacs keybindings (in addition to the default), but you can customize your own keybindings if you like. It is project-based (you can't just open a file, and compile it), but I have come to really like that aspect of it.
I had never seen a Java IDE that I liked. The GUI always seemed buggy, but Eclipse uses an open-source alternative GUI widget set (called SWT) that seems very nice. I've considered using it instead of AWT or Swing in my own projects. Eclipse is updated regularly (every month or two) and has many free/open-source plugins along with proprietary ones. There are plugins for SourceSafe, JBoss/Tomcat, XML/HTML editing, PHP, C# and a bunch more. CVS integration is built-in. I've used Eclipse on Windows and Linux (Mac OS X is also supported) and the experience is very similar. The whole project (www.eclipse.org) is open source, licensed under the CPL -- http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html and http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php. Eclipse is not as flexible as jEdit -- using Eclipse means developing within certain boundaries (must have a project, etc.), but I actually like that. It's definitely worth trying. --Dan On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:30:53 -0700, "Iacov Nicherescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hopefully this won't start an opinion war, but- What java ide would you > folks > recommend for linux? I intend to try to jde because I'm partial to > emacs, > but as far as cool gui ones, which should I go for? And I'd really > prefer > one that's not actually written in java, if possible, but I suppose that > doesn't matter too much if it's cool and robust and whatnot. Thanks-- > > -James > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- http://fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
