Re: A constructive debate: Eclipse or NetBeans?

Jon Harrop schrieb:
I discovered that NetBeans has an add-on to provide OpenGL from Java. I
tried it, could not get it to work and went to ask for help on their forum
only to discover that nobody has ever posted to the forum:

https://netbeans-opengl-pack.dev.java.net/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=users
Being on of the authors of the Netbeans OpenGL pack I am quite disappointed by the fact, that you are criticizing the project for an empty forum while not posting yourself...

Needless to say, this is not what I was expecting from a mainstream
language. Installing JOGL required various .properties files to be copied
to certain locations and edited, various environment variables to be set and
so forth. Even after all that, only a couple of the demos actually work.
That's actually not true. There is no need to copy/edit any properties file and the environment variable changes mentioned are for convenience.

For compiling JOGL based apps, you need to specify the needed jars on the classpath:

javac -classpath path/to/jogl.jar:path/to/gluegen-rt.jar
-sourcepath app/sources -d app/classes

and run it via

java -Djava.library.path=path/to/jogl/natives:path/to/gluegen/natives
-classpath path/to/jogl.jar:path/to/gluegen-rt.jar:app/classes
org.yourorg.YourApp

the above is tedious typing effort, hence the environment variables...

> . Discover that Eclipse is using the GNU Java implementation rather
> than Sun's Java implementation.
> . Learn how to alter the chosen Java implementation used by Eclipse
> (...)
That's neither SUNs nor Eclipses fault but simply of the fault of the GNU folks. GCJ, while being nice for it's purposes, is far from being a certified java implementation. It's not even a JVM but a java to native code compiler...

Best Regards
Mathias Henze
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