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Started by one mind July 09, 2005 10:02 PM

50 comments, last by Frank Henry 18 years, 8 months ago

one mind

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July 09, 2005 10:02 PM

Hi, There seems to be hundreds of java ide's out there and am looking for opinions on a good one. Is there a java ide standard ide that most devs use? Like vs is for c languages dev? I've heard netbeans was slow. Any info would be great, Thanks

Fruny

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July 09, 2005 10:06 PM

Eclipse

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." — Brian W. Kernighan

Sir Sapo

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July 09, 2005 10:23 PM

I liked BlueJ.

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Guimo

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July 09, 2005 10:25 PM

NetBeans is probably the best Java IDE available.

Luck!
Guimo

Funkapotamus

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July 09, 2005 10:56 PM

Another vote for Eclipse.

I don't mean to start a flamewar or anything, but Netbeans is horrid. Sun has been losing more and more developers to Eclipse. It's gotten so bad that they're bundling Netbeans with the Java 1.5 SDK. (I know you can get the SDK without it- but it seems very telling that they would bundle Netbeans around the time that less people are using it.) They've also been very sneaky- quoting the recent increase of Netbeans downloads as proof people like the program. When of course, the increased downloads have a lot to do with the bundle.

Not that Netbeans is *bad* or anything. Just that Eclipse has been and is better currently. Only recently has Netbeans been able to hold a flame against Eclipse. And that's because Sun's been playing catchup hardcore.