Hi everyone!
Our project is just beginning to work in JAVA. We want to buy the BEST, the modernest professional developing tools(like JAVA editor, etc).
Could any of you, gurus and specialists, recommend us what tools to order?
(P.S. What would you say about Visual J++? Is it good and why?)
I'm using Kawa right now to develop servlets, it's really easy if you set it up with lite webserver, and then you can test your servlets right from it. I also like Kawa because it has no problems finding all the paths. Kawa is very basic (and cheap), but thats why it is almost guaranteed to work with everything. I would stay away from Visual J++, CodeWarrior and stuff like that. Visual Cafe is pretty good, but it's very expensive and sometimes tries to use its own paths and does not see the system paths. I have not used JBuilder, but I am very pleased with Kawa.
Val.
NOT Visual J++. It's nice as a coloured text editor (I use it), but don't compile with it - stick to the JDK if you go this route. Also, don't pay money for this outdated junk IDE - I got my copy free from a prof who was throwing it out. 'nuff said! :) I only use it because it's a step up from notepad and/or vi ...
cheers,
Andrew
I've used Forte For Java and really like it... it's what I use on my home machine. At work I have IBM VisualAge for Java 3.5 EE. I really detested VAJ at first, but I've come to like some of its features. (Of course, there are other things that I really despise, but that's true of most any IDE <g>).
Fortunately, both of them have free community versions you can download and take for a test drive--that way you can make up your own mind. =)
