Re: Recommendations for Free/Cheap GUI-builder/RAD tool for Java Swing
From: David Segall (DavidSegall_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 12/14/03
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:20:25 GMT
"E.Otter" <no-email@given.com> wrote:
>Preferably one that supports j2se 1.3+. Not new to java development, but
>time and money is a major constraint. Mainly for application development.
>
>Thanks,
>E.Otter
>
Netbeans (www.netbeans.org) is free and Open Source. I think you will
find it the best choice. Borland JBuilder Personal Edition
(http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/personal/index.html) is also free (or
$10.00 if you want it on CD). Oracle's JDeveloper
(http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/content.html) is free but the
license severely restricts what you can do with programs you write if
you do not pay for it.
Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is a popular Open Source IDE and there are
free plug-ins like http://www.assisiplugins.com/index_start.html and
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/ that provide limited WYSIWYG GUI
development.
Sun One Studio 4 Community Edition, which is derived from Netbeans, is
still available, without charge, from
http://jsecom16d.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=FJCI9-401-TL9M&TransactionId=try&LMLoadBalanced=
but has been superseded by Studio 5. Sun suggest you use Netbeans if
you want a free version. IBM has a free version of Visual Age for Java
at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/FrameData/Master?OpenDocument&FSet=1&Doc3=4589&Title=Overview&DPart=Overview&Doc4=4594.
It has a limit on the number of classes in your application and, in
any case, has been superseded by Websphere Studio Application
Developer (http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/studioappdev/).
Websphere is not free but a sixty day trial is available.
I believe that this is a complete list of free Java IDE's that include
a WYSIWYG GUI builder and contains references to all the commercial
vendors of such a product. Please submit a follow-up if you have a
correction.
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