Re: Recommend an IDE

From: Nathan Zumwalt (nathanz_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: 17 Dec 2003 07:09:14 -0800

What do you mean by "Not drag 'n drop"? Are you talking about a UI
builder?

IntelliJ is by far the most advanced Java IDE out there right now, and
probably most closely approximates a VB environment (intelli-sense,
code formatting, etc.). It's important to note that it doesn't have a
UI builder yet (that functionality is still in beta).

Eclipse is good if you don't want to spend money, but it's a distant
second.

-Nathan

"Geoffrey" <geoffrey@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:<3fdec35a$0$298$ba620e4c@reader1.news.skynet.be>...
> Eclipse (40% of all java developpers in a poll, 1ste place) www.eclipse.org
> for J2SE, J2EE, J2ME:
> + open source, free, backed by IBM, very good, ANT, CVS, ... support
> - not really drag 'n drop, installation without shortcuts
> . installation: Install J2SE SDK 1.4 from java.sun.com, download zip, unzip
> in a directory, create a desktop link to the jar(opens like an exe if SDK
> installed)
>
> IntelliJ (10%, 3th place) www.intellij.com for J2SE, J2EE, J2ME:
> + very very very good core, refactoring, formatting, shortcuts, ANT, ... (my
> favorite)
> - not free, not drag 'n drop
>
> JBuilder (2de place): + drag 'n drop - don't like it
> NetBeans: - really don't like it (worked with it over a year)
>
>
> --
> Thank you for any and all help,
> Geoffrey
> "news" <j@j.cm> schreef in bericht
> news:h1vDb.117$bs4.43@nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> > I like a good IDE, I used to program in Visual Basic, now I would like an
> > IDE similar or easy for a VB programmer to relate to.
> >
> > Can any one recommend a good Java IDE?
> >
> >