Re: IDE Suggestions

From:

Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:55:08 -0000

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On Aug 2, 5:04 am, gregarican <greg.kuj...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am looking to get more into Java development, but would like some
suggestions as to the most suitable IDE. I know this is a subjective
question, but here's where I am coming from. I have worked in Ruby and
C# extensively. The point being:

1) Ruby was easy (fun dare I say?) to work in syntactically, but
lacked a solid IDE for GUI development. I have seen a few offerings,
but they lacked the drag and drop widget feature to easily create GUI
apps.

2) C# development is pretty straightforward using Visual Studio 2005.
GUI apps can be created quickly and efficiently. But it lacks the
cross platform ability I am looking for now. I have looked into
MonoDevelop, but getting this working on Mac OS X and Linux platforms
isn't a no-brainer.

So far for a Java IDE I have looked at Eclipse with the WindowBuilder
plug-in from Instantiations. It looks pretty good, although I'm not
sure about FOSS licensing. Right now I have a 14-day time bombed trial
install. What about Netbeans and some of the others out there?
Preferably I would like to try out a FOSS solution. Emphasis on quick
drag and drop GUI features.

Any suggestions? Keep it clean :-)

I actually use JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA.
It has *great* support for refactoring, which is very important to my
development style. Most of my work is either webapps, or if it is a
GUI, its simple enough that I can hand code the Swing components, so
I'm not sure how good/bad/existent the GUI builder in IDEA is.

From what I've heard, Eclipse is pretty decent too, but I don't have

much to base that on.