I'm currently nearing the end of my 30 day JCreator Pro trial so was wondering what everybody else uses? Any recommendations?
JCreator is good for the dosh. Borland one is jukie (JBuilder) vs6 has a good one but is for windows dev. mainly. sun's ONE studio is good.
Try Eclipse Here As for text editors well I normally use UltraEdit 32, but also Programmers Notepad and Notepad.
Ah, so that's what netbeans is, was wondering what it was when it gave me the option to download it when I updated the SDK. Thanks for the suggestions, time to give a few of them a go (4 days left on trial)...
If you're a student, you can get JCreator LE for free :> NetBeans is also pretty good, but I found JCreator to be slightly easier to set up (despite them both being extremely easy anyway).
Not really liking netbeans TBH... Theo, I thought the LE version was free for everybody? I quite like some of the little features of Pro though.
I use JBuilder at my work... it's one of the best one's I've come across, unfortunately it's quite expensive. I did investigate some free ones, and Eclipse seemed the best to me, but it didn't have Visual Source Safe intergration, so that's why we went with JBuilder.
Gvim/notepad here.... Gvim is GREAT for coding, highlights syntax nicely Theres a windows or linux complier available with the java sdk as well, this is commadline based but seems fine.
Hey Kermet (The frog?? ) , I personally use Forte for Java. It is a very good Editor and you can directly edit object AND it's Free Download the editor from http://www.sofotex.com/Forte-for-Java-release-download_L1895.html It requires that the Java runtime environment be installed available from http://java.sun.com, so install this first if you don't have it installed The second Java Editor I use is, JBuilder by Borland. It's also free (The Person Edition) and you can get more information and download it at http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/ This has it's own java environment embed so you don't have to have the Java Run Time environment installed. Both of these versions require a "beefy" computer so make sure to check the requirements P.S. Between the two, I would go with the Old version of Jbuilder(3.0 I think). Enjoy
What year you in? After your first year, you should only using a text editor, not an IDE. That's how it was in my 2nd/3rd years anyway. IDEs can be useful though, for function/method/class listings if nothing else. I'm a PHP developer now and would struggle without Zend Studio.
I think I might try some of these IDEs out. Just wondering though, are there any Java debuggers around? Ie something that lets you step through code and view the value of various variables?
