Re: Request Opinions on a typical Java development environment (non-Windows)

From: Alun Harford (alunharford_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:39:33 +0100

"Kal" <kal5133@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:77f394e5.0404210458.218945f0@posting.google.com...

Firstly I should point out that the typical development environment for Java
is Linux.

> what linux flavour should I use? red-hat, gentoo, suse, etc...
Any will work fine.
Personally I'd avoid the commercial ones though and either go with debian or
start from scratch (although starting from scratch would be hard for a
non-Linux user)

> what linux gui should i use? gnome or kde (are there others?)
X-Windows :-)
Then install a load of window managers until you decide which one you like -
it's entirely a matter of personal choice.

> what java ide exists on linux? i've heard of eclipse, is this is the
> best?
Other than Microsoft's (which doesn't really count in Windows anyway) all
the common ides have Linux versions, and probably a few that don't exist in
Windows.

> what web server should i set up? is this apache? (are there others)
If I were going to set up a web server on Linux I'd use Apache (but if I
were then I wouldn't be running my IDE and developing on that machine)
> what database can i use while developing? (no clue here)
Whatever you like really. Except MS SQL server.

Alun Harford

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