IDE

[V. Iwaszczenko]

I am looking for an IDE and do not know which one to select. Does anyone know of any published works that evaluate the various options ie Visual J++, Beans, VisualAge, etc?

[R.Saravanan]

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/

is the URL of a site called the The Swing Connection. It has a section called "The Great IDE Roundup". Preliminary desciptions of the products are found there. I don't know if that will be exactly what u r looking for - check out.

Personally, if u r looking for an IDE, I'd recommend NetBeans Developer. A real great IDE - and avl. for free for personal use. I've tried quite a few. But in NetBeans you don't have an entity called a "Project". You have one single "Repository". If you like organising ur work into Projects and sub-projects, Sun's Java Workshop 3.0 is good - provided u replace the GIF files that are provided with the download.. (personal preferences again). But no UI builder - u cannot drag and drop code into ur Windows/Dialogs. If u prefer coding manually, u'll like Workshop - if u'd rather leave the code generated by the IDE for UI creation etc. alone, then u'd better look for something else. The only disadvantage I saw with Visual Age was that to use a class, it has to be first imported into VisualAge's repository ( if someone knows differently, please correct me. ). If u want to use only 1/2 classes from the jbcl library for example, u have to have the entire jbcl library imported into the repository...and u can save a file only if it passes syntax corrections, (which is good) compilation etc. ( which is not so good ). A good product - but can include some more features.

Hope that gets u started off.

Rgds,

R. Saravanan

[V. Iwaszczenko]

Excellent. Thank you very much.

[DHunter21]

I have to say that I think NetBeans is one of the biggest pigs... maybe its just my computer for some unknown reason, but when I run netbeans on my computer (PII 400, 256MB) it is incredably slow... so slow that when I drag an item I can see the trails. It might just be my computer, but if not, I would recomment JPad Pro for a good IDE that doesn't try and do all the fancy stuff for you.

Dustin

[R.Saravanan]

Check your swap file settings.
I hv run NetBeans on a PII 400 with just 64 MB RAM and it worked beautifully. I use it even now. Only thing I can think of is your swap file. And, what version of Java/OS were you using? Incidentally, NetBeans was workable ON A PENTIUM 266 MHZ WITH 32 MB RAM ( using Linux/KDE and IBM's JDK118 ) !!