Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:42:11 -0700 From: Branden Root <branden@portentinteractive.com> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a Java development environment Message-ID: <200208141242.11918.branden@portentinteractive.com> In-Reply-To: <3D5A7757.27861.41DAA152@localhost> References: <3D5A7757.27861.41DAA152@localhost>
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Dan, Since your project doesn't seem too complex, this is mainly a matter of preference. Personally, when I work on small tasks I find that jedit+ant is the best tool, since its basically a pretty text editor with some macros that help. When it comes to some of the larger things I usually work in an IDE. There are several good ones out there, I'll list a few: Forte for Java (http://forte.sun.com/ffj/index.html), along with Netbeans (www.netbeans.org) are good ones to try. While a little slower they do have lots of features. Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is IBM's free offering. I havn't managed to get this to build on FreeBSD yet though. IDEA from IntelliJ (http://www.intellij.com/idea/) has a lot of nice features, an easy to learn interface, and runs a little faster (at least it seems to). I'd suggest trying out all of them to get a feel for which one works best for you. All of these (short of Eclipse) work on FreeBSD and should work on XP, but I havn't tried the XP Java yet so no guarantees. -- Branden Root (HexGhost) Web Developer Portent Interactive On Wednesday 14 August 2002 12:29 pm, Dan Langille wrote: > I have used Java in my deep dark past. I think it was a Borland > environment, but I can't remember. I think it was I am about to > start doing it again[1]. What do you recommend as a development > environment? I have access to both a XP desktop and a KDE desktop > (via VNC for now). > > What I found out so far: The databse server is Apache with a > PostgreSQL database. There is a PG JDBC driver at > http://jdbc.postgresql.org/ > > > [1] - FWIW: I'm creating a Java project to supply > FreshSource/FreshPorts data to third parties via XML. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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