Java and Linux

[Terence Kearns]

Yup, netbeans is certainly cool. Also, one worth checking out is eclipse 
which is realy a development framework more than an environment. I know 
that sounds silly, but you'll see what I mean when you check it out. See 
this slideshow 
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/presentation/eclipse-slides.html

I'm really getting into using eclipse now. I originally started using it 
as an alternative to winCVS (gui CVS client). Another cool plugin is the 
attrezzo plugin which provides a GUI browser for the Xindice pure XML 
database. Eclipse has too many features/plugins to explain here.

It is an open-source project run/sponsored(?) by IBM. I believe it is 
the framework for their [proprietary] websphere studio IDE (?)

Anyway, it's also pure Java and therefore runs on (is ported to) anything.
http://www.eclipse.org

PS. it's a really sexy GUI too :-D
I like it's concepts of perspectives which allows you to save and switch 
between layouts easily.


James Ring wrote:

> Slightly OT...
>
> I was strolling through the archives and I noticed that the topic of 
> Java and Linux came up a long long time ago.
>
> One IDE that I found really neat is NetBeans (www.netbeans.org). It 
> does some cool stuff like code completion, goes automatically to the 
> javadoc of the method you are writing, etc. Also, it has a GUI editor, 
> which cuts swing code for you, and has a nice GridBagLayout editor.
>
> I haven't explored NetBeans fully, but it certainly looks real nice.
>
> Its written in pure Java, I think... It'll run really nicely on your 
> 1GHz Athlon :-)
>
> James
>
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