Hello. Nice to "meet" you.
I'm new to java and while I'm still learning the basics, what I really want to do is construct the user interface of an SQL database in java, which will have many scroll-down menus etc and will run in Windows XP.
What program would you recommend me to use? I've downloaded JCreator but I'm not sure this is the best option..
Thank you in advance!
> What program would you recommend me to use? I've
> downloaded JCreator but I'm not sure this is the best
> option..
I think the most popular are Eclipse and Netbeans. I prefer Eclipse but Netbeans may be better for you. It's supported by Sun and they even offer a combined download of Java&Netbeans. Here's the Wikipedia entry for Netbeans,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBeans
There are further articles describing the other IDE's.
> Aren't there plugins for Eclipse to do that? (that's
> what a friend said)
Both Eclipse and Netbeans allow you to develop GUI's "visually" but in the Eclipse case you'll have to download a separate module. In both cases you don't have to of course. You just don't use the "visual editor" but program your GUI directly using the Swing classes.
I would say the complexity of Eclipse and Netbeans are about equal. In my view it's always better to use a fullblown IDE right from the start.
