Re: Development software suite :-)
From: David Segall (False_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/25/04
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:20:01 GMT
pmdanger@yahoo.com (pmdanger) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just read your comment about my question regarding to the best
>java development tool. It seems that a lot of people use Visual Aga
>for Java or JBuilder.
>
>Some people talked about Eclipse...but if i understood, people from
>Eclipse are basically from IBM so from Visual Age project, no ?
>
>Difference between VAJ and Eclipse is at first the price...Eclipse is
>free :-)
>
>But what about functionalities ?
>
>And what are the default of Jbuilder regarding to VAJ ???
>
>thanks in advance,
>Maileen
My apologies to regular readers of this news group and the OP for
simply reproducing my most recent post on the topic. As noted below
Visual Age for Java which was based on IBM's Smalltalk product has
been eclipsed [ ): ] by Websphere Application Developer.
Netbeans (www.netbeans.org) is free and Open Source. I think you will
find it the best choice. Borland JBuilder Foundation
(http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/foundation/) is also a free download.
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 or cheap plug-ins like
http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/index.html,
http://www.assisiplugins.com/index_start.html and
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/ that provide 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but has been superseded by Studio 5.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any case, has been superseded by Websphere Studio Application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 60 day trial is available.
IntelliJ IDEA (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html) also includes
a GUI builder. It is not free but you can download a 30 day trial.
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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