Re: Java tools: Is eclipse everything what I need ?

Dado wrote: 
In this moment I use only a free version of JCreator as a java editor, but I
want learn more about java so I need a powerfull and complete java tool for
everything on one place. I was thinking that eclipse with all its plugins
maybe can be the tool of that kind. So the question is: if I have eclipse,
what kind of java tool I also need which eclipse doesn't support?


Make sure you have lots of processing power and copious amounts of memory, Eclipse is a hungry beastie. Actually for learning, a compiler and text editor force you into learning stuff that the IDE allows you to ignore. Multiple windows can always be used to handle different functions.

Besides if you plan on doing it professionally, there will be that time, at 4:00am at a client when you need to fix something and the Internet is not working, and all you can stuff on the CD is a compiler for a couple of platforms, so your sitting there with only notepad or Vi available. If you don't know what your doing, then your sunk.

Every professional programmer should know the basics of Vi, every Unix/Linux box has a version of Vi on it. For windows, Vi is available (Winvi) and quite small, the executable is 370K, the zip file is 189K.

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