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Ninkazu · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:22 am Post subject: Java...

I know it's shit and all, but I have to start it for school, and I want to know what the best IDE is. J2ME, JCreator... what? Oh, and something free, too.

BigManJones · Scholar Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 196

Java actually is not all that bad. Once you get used to the entire oop/everything is a class thing, its actually quiet simple and easy to get results fast. It even has built in support for gfx and sound. My two main dislikes about Java:

1. The lag at startup when the JRE loads gives the impression of slowness.

2. File io is a pain in the ass.

J2ME isn't an ide, thats the sdk for mobile devices. I've been using JCreater lately and its very nice, and free. The only thing I don't like about it is the help dialogue always stays on top in the way. Too use JCreater you must download the 1.4 sdk and docs from sun. Its all free as in no charge.

Mandrake · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject:

buy a copy of ultra edit. It will work with everything and anything. And it's worth the 32 bucks or so you would have to pay for it.
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LeoDraco · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

Or, if you're running a Linux distro, you could just forsake IDEs altogether and just use emacs or vi.
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Rainer Deyke · Demon Hunter Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 672

You don't need Linux for that! I do all of my editing in gvim on a Windows box.

golrien · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:33 pm Post subject:

Eclipse?

LeoDraco · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:03 pm Post subject:

Happy · JonA's American snack pack Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 200

jEdit

ishpeck · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject: Java IDE's

AnyJ
http://www.netcomputing.de/

Netbeans
http://www.netbeans.org/

Simplicity
http://www.datarepresentations.com/

BlueJ (It's spiffy)
http://www.bluej.org/

I used to use WipeOut. . . but I can't find the site for it anymore.
http://wxstudio.sourceforge.net/

These days, though, I just use Notepad/vi.
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omega_alpha · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:55 am Post subject:

I'd say Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) or Jext(http://www.jext.org)

janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

I've used JCreator and it works pretty well.

Fling-master · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:44 pm Post subject:

I would have to agree with Janus. In my grade 11 programming class 2 years ago I used JCreator and it was pretty damn good.
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Ninkazu · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject:

I'm using DOS, and it is working mighty fine.