From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 14 12:43: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD6837B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frankenstein.nwlink.com (pop.nwlink.com [209.20.130.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F3D43E6E for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from branden@portentinteractive.com) Received: from niss (ip201.portent.sea.interquest.net [66.135.149.201]) by frankenstein.nwlink.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g7EJgLX64743 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from branden@portentinteractive.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Branden Root Reply-To: branden@portentinteractive.com Organization: Portent Interactive To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a Java development environment Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:42:11 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <3D5A7757.27861.41DAA152@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3D5A7757.27861.41DAA152@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208141242.11918.branden@portentinteractive.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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