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In my opinion, Java developers should have several IDEs installed on their PC. In the era of ANT and Maven, the build of your project should be automated anyway, so it's OK to use more than one IDE based on your current needs.There are several IDEs that are-good-enough for any Java developer. Two out of three best IDEs are free:
Free Eclipse is nice because of variety of plugins available. Since I'm into Flex programming now, I'm still using it.
Free Netbeans shines when it comes to GUI designers (Matisse). I'm planning to attend Netbeans tutorial day during my JavaOne visit.
But if you need just a really good Java-aware IDE, there is only one to use: not-free-but-inexpensive IntelliJIDEA.
During my 8 years of Java programming, I worked with VisualAge, JBuilder, and Eclipse. I knew that IntelliJIDEA had a loyal following of expert Java programmers, they won the JDJ's Best IDE award, but I just didn' t have an opportunity to use it. Finally I started using IntelliJIDEA on decent-size project having three hundred classes.
I do not have time to list all nice little features of this product that help you with every move you make! Some time later I'll write a product review of this tool... This IDE outsmarts me big time. Finding classes, refactoring suggesting solutions... everyting is at your fingertips. I'm starting learning Java again with the help of this IDE.
JetBrains folks did an amazing job. If they'll add a decent Swing GUI designer, this will be the only IDE to use. Hands down.
posted Friday, 5 May 2006
tags: java ide
Published May 5, 2006 Reads 13,971
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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.
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Yakov Fain 05/12/06 05:00:24 PM EDT | |||
I'm sure they have a GUI designer, but I won't admit that any Java IDE is a great RAD tool until I see something similar to what PowerBuilder offered more than 10 years ago with their DataWindow objects and reporting. |
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Simcha Knif 05/12/06 04:23:15 PM EDT | |||
Yakov, you probably just did not have time to use the GUI designer in IntelliJ, since it's far better that its counterparts in any other Java IDE. You don't have to deal with various Java layouts and the horror that comes with it: you simply paint the screens in the same intuitive manner as in most graphical applications a la Illustrator or CorellDraw. And then the IDE converts it to Java code (that younever want to look at, promise!). |
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In my opinion, Java developers should have several IDEs installed on their PC. In the era of ANT and Maven, the build of you project should be automated anyway, so it's OK to use more than one IDE based on your current needs. There are several IDEs that are-good-enough for any Java developer. Two out of three best IDEs are free: Free Eclipse is nice because of variety of plugins available. Since I'm into Flex programming now, I'm still using it. |
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In my opinion, Java developers should have several IDEs installed on their PC. In the era of ANT and Maven, the build of you project should be automated anyway, so it's OK to use more than one IDE based on your current needs. There are several IDEs that are-good-enough for any Java developer. Two out of three best IDEs are free: Free Eclipse is nice because of variety of plugins available. Since I'm into Flex programming now, I'm still using it. |
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