Re: Need Development Environment Advice

Jim Bailey wrote:
I am a Visual Studio (early versions and .NET) developer for many years, including c# and asp, and even back to the old days of Microsoft Transaction Manager (an early object manager of sorts). I now need to move into a new environment of Java, Eclipse, and JBoss. I have started studying the language and doing just fine so far using Eclipse to compile and run console applications.

What I would like to do, just for learning experience is put together a couple of programs that populate a Windows type form from a DB, modify the data, validate it, save it, etc. This is the sort of thing you can do pretty quickly in VS.NET. Where my problem is, is trying to determine what I should/shouldn't use to provide me the environment for doing this. I see there are plug-ins for Eclipse like SWT Designer, Matisse, (several more here of course) etc. but I hate to invest time in getting this set up and working, only to find out that it's not really the 'popular' way of doing things in Java. I've also had my eye on MyEclipse - looks like they sort of roll eveything into one place for you for $50.

As I progress I'll switch over to web apps, ejb (I believe), and JBoss and need to get familiar with JSP, servlets, etc., but for the moment I just want to start getting comfortable with the language and some tools.

I suppose what i'm asking is, as a beginner, what should I be looking at as the top candidates for GUI form design and other Eclipse plugins to get me started ?

jim in fl


First I would suggest that you use the newsgroups at Eclipse's NNTP at news.eclipse.org They have 85 newsgroups over there.

You will need a free account to issue questions to their newsgroups. You can get this account here: http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups

If you are not doing web dev right away I would just write the programs you are talking about and this will let you get familiar with the Eclipse IDE. There is a lot to the Eclipse IDE and you may want to take time to understand it.

I would learn how to code your own GUI's since this is the only way to learn how to write them. Just do not forget to use a layout manager for your GUI.

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