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looking for an IDE in Java


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I was using Forte for Java version 4 but it seems sun has discontinued that product. I am looking for any other good similar IDE or is there anything else which is not an IDE and still better?

Thanks

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I was using Forte for Java version 4 but it seems sun has discontinued that product. I am looking for any other good similar IDE or is there anything else which is not an IDE and still better?

Thanks

Under which platform? Windows, *nix or mac?

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I have tried NetBeans and its as slow as running UT2004 on a 300MHz Pentium 2.

JCreator is fast, and it's programmed in C++

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JCreator is fast, and it's programmed in C++

I find it funny how an IDE is created in a different language than it's going to be used with. Note I'm not talking about a compiler. Having a java IDE written in C++ is kind of humorous to me, since java's target audience is mostly C++ programmers. It's like having Visual Studio .NET written in java :rofl: Why would you ever do that? :wacko:

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Looks like Gel is similar to Eclipse but with more buttons :o)

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Most likely Gel is based off Eclipse. Eclipse is more than just an all purpose IDE, its been designed to be extended for whatever purpose the developer has in mind to use it for. Really quite an intricate tool.

***however after reading the overview again i might be wrong about it being based off eclipse. but it does look oddly similar in just about everyway possible***

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I was browsing around eclipse and saw its available for all major platform....great :)

Also are these IDE light on memory?

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I find it funny how an IDE is created in a different language than it's going to be used with. Note I'm not talking about a compiler. Having a java IDE written in C++ is kind of humorous to me, since java's target audience is mostly C++ programmers. It's like having Visual Studio .NET written in java :rofl: Why would you ever do that? :wacko:

If the tool fits ;)

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I am bit confused which file I am supposed to download from this site:

http://mirror.pacific.net.au/eclipse/eclip...ownloads/drops/

under the RC1 there are so many files which is one one I need?

http://mirror.pacific.net.au/eclipse/eclip...1-200405290105/

Here's a direct link.

http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drop....0RC1-win32.zip

extract it .. and run Eclipse.exe .. easy :)

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So which of these contain a GUI editor?

Some of these "IDE"'s are as useless as a text editor with colouring IMO. JCreator wasn't even pointing out errors in my code (purposely put there to test the application).

Basically the only thing keeping me using *sigh* Netbeans is the GUI builder and the error checking.

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It's not that hard to create the GUI by yourself... And as for the error checking, do you mean when you try to compile? Or as you type the code?

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As you type the code, but I found many of the IDEs listed do this.

It was only really JCreator that didn't seem to.

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I find it funny how an IDE is created in a different language than it's going to be used with. Note I'm not talking about a compiler. Having a java IDE written in C++ is kind of humorous to me, since java's target audience is mostly C++ programmers. It's like having Visual Studio .NET written in java :rofl: Why would you ever do that? :wacko:

Well, see, it turns out that on Windows machines, C++ runs a bit faster than Java. As a result, it only makes sense to code Windows apps in C*.

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