Re: A good text editor for JAVA?

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:26:32 -0000, <mrandywarner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Use eclipse. Best java IDE you can get, and it's free.

That would be a matter of opinion. In mine, IntelliJ IDEA is the best (though not free). Eclipse may be powerful but it is not particularly intuitive and not really a good choice for a beginner. In fact, I would recommend anything other than Eclipse for a beginner (I guess I just started a flame war there). BlueJ is apparently a very good IDE for beginners. But since the original poster mentioned a text editor, they should probably look at something like JEdit or, for something smaller and faster, J (http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net). An IDE is most useful once you know enough about the language to understand what it is that the IDE is doing for you.

Dan.

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