From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 14 13:19: 0 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 7F5C837B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (fepout3.telus.net [199.185.220.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66BC43E75 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mayo@nfy.ca) Received: from nfy.ca ([64.180.250.89]) by priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020814201855.GKB22374.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@nfy.ca> for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:18:55 -0600 Message-ID: <3D5ABB2F.800@nfy.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:18:55 -0700 From: Mayo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a Java development environment References: <3D5A7757.27861.41DAA152@localhost> <200208141242.11918.branden@portentinteractive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi Dan, Also, if you want a nice and quick IDE for wndows, JCreator is another one you could try. (jcreator.com I think). (Although I prefer IDEA for bigger projects) mayo Branden Root wrote: >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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message