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Started by RPGeezus October 21, 2003 12:26 PM

19 comments, last by RPGeezus 20 years, 5 months ago

RPGeezus

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October 21, 2003 12:26 PM

Just getting my feet wet in Java again (I used to use it back in the 90''s) and have noticed that the IDE''s have changed quite a bit. My question is what is the best IDE to use for game development in Java? I would need at the least a decent debugger (ie: the ability to step through my code line by line). Cheers, Will

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BitMaster

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October 21, 2003 12:40 PM

I kinda like Eclipse myself.

http://www.eclipse.org/

[edited by - BitMaster on October 21, 2003 1:40:57 PM]

Lucidquiet

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October 21, 2003 02:09 PM

I''m a little curious too, how eclipse stacks up with jEdit, if anyone knows, or has an opinion?

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Anonymous

October 21, 2003 08:25 PM

Eclipse is very good. Highly recommended. It has all the features of a modern ide, including a nice debugger. It also continually compiles your code in the background, so it will point out compilation errors in your code just like how Word points out misspellings. Sounds simple enough, but I can''t emphasize enough how much time that saves.

Oh, and it''s free.

gh_0_st

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October 21, 2003 08:29 PM

It ain''t cheap...but there''s not a better Java IDE out there.

IntelliJ

Julio

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October 21, 2003 08:33 PM

Eclipse is the best free one I''ve found.

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RPGeezus

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October 21, 2003 11:22 PM

Lol, the one I havn''t tried yet! Thanks for the tips-- I''m D/Ling Eclipse right now...

I remember when Visual Cafe Studio came out-- I liked it. For some reason everything seems to have gone downhill though.

Thanks for all of the advice,
Will

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MadLep

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October 25, 2003 12:45 AM

Eclipse is great. Better than a lot of commercial IDEs, and as has been said - it''s free. Very easy and nice to use, and the MS-Word "spelling mistake" style error highlighting is excellent.

We''ve switched from using JBuilder to Eclipse at work and everyone loves it.

"I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me."

Anonymous

October 25, 2003 02:17 AM

I actually think Eclipse is the best IDE available, Java or not, commercial or not.