From owner-freebsd-java Thu Feb 21 7:10:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.looneys.net (crufty.looneys.net [63.231.250.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F69137B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:10:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (serpico.looneys.net [63.231.250.36]) by mail.looneys.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C9FB722726 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:10:54 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mcclain Looney Reply-To: mcclain@looneys.net To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best IDE for slow system? Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:10:55 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020221125412.B12423@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020221145219.540E72253C@mail.looneys.net> <20020221145732.B12971@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020221145732.B12971@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020221151054.C9FB722726@mail.looneys.net> 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 On Thursday 21 February 2002 08:57 am, j mckitrick wrote: > I use gvim and ctags (somewhat) but I don't know much about ant. It > is like the java version of 'make' correct? yup. works really nice, i have a simple 1 liner ant macro you can find at vim.sf.net (or whatever that site is). get jikes too. > How do you design GUIs? I guess that's the biggest reason i like the > IDEs. For C/C++ i only use gvim/xemacs. i design guis the old fashioned way, by hand, which may be why i'm rarely ever asked to build guis. "visual" gui builders generally are more trouble than they are worth (good luck if you ever need/want to reformat your code, or switch ides). as gui builders go, netbeans is probably the best i've seen, followed by jbuilder. -mcclain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message