From owner-freebsd-java Thu Feb 21 7:13:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FC237B404 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from iscool.ist.co.uk (iscool [89.0.0.33]) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g1LFD7w67271; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:13:07 GMT (envelope-from nick@iscool.ist.co.uk) Message-Id: <200202211513.g1LFD7w67271@isbalham.ist.co.uk> Received: from ispider by iscool.ist.co.uk; Thu, 21 Feb 02 15:13:06 GMT Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:13:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Nicholas Wright Reply-To: Nicholas Wright Subject: Re: Best IDE for slow system? To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org, meshko@cs.brandeis.edu Cc: mcclain@looneys.net, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Md5: IewoSUp7pDT6y53fP+Ugjg== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.1 CDE Version 1.2.1 SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc 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 Check out Visaj. Visaj is a 100% Pure Java GUI editor tool which supports AWT/Swing and J2SE, and provides Layout Editors for all the Java layouts. An evaluation copy can be freely downloaded at http://www.visaj.com/. Being solely a GUI editor, the entire package comes in at just under 4MB. Visaj 2.5.2 FreeBSD Linux *nix Windows Sorry about the xML - been working on XML and Schemas recently. Nicholas > > | > > | all the editors you mentioned would be incredibly slow on a system of your > > | specifications. if you need all the bells and whistles, you may just have to > > | settle for slow. if you don't need bells and whistles, you can use a > > | combination of gvim, ctags and ant. I have used this system to great effect > > | over the years. > > > > I use gvim and ctags (somewhat) but I don't know much about ant. It > > is like the java version of 'make' correct? > > > > How do you design GUIs? I guess that's the biggest reason i like the > > IDEs. For C/C++ i only use gvim/xemacs. > > Generally it is a very bad idea to create Java GUIs with automatic GUI > editors. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message =========================================================================== Nicholas Wright Imperial Software Technology Senior Software Engineer --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email : nick@ist.co.uk or support@ist.co.uk Kings Court 120 Hawthorne Ave, #101 185 Kings Road Palo Alto Reading RG1 4EX United Kingdom California 94301 USA Tel: +44 118 958 7055 Tel: 650 688 0200 FAX: +44 118 958 9005 FAX: 650 688 1054 =========================================================================== ****** VISAJ AT http://www.ist.co.uk/visaj ****** =========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message