Re: IDE Suggestions

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:30:56 -0400

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gregarican wrote:

No doubt. It's not like you work for them. What's up with that? It's
not like your last name is JetBrains :-) Seriously though, I
appreciate the feedback. Right now I'm trying out Eclipse and Netbeans
back and forth to see which one will fit the way I work the best. That
and looking forward to getting my Sams book on Java to get my feet
under me.

Wisdom indicates to have an Ant-based command-line build for Java and
Java-based projects. Character development arises from familiarity with the
process. Integrating Ant with a versioned source repository is /de rigueur/.

Both NetBeans and Eclipse adore Ant and version control. Both also risk
imposition of IDE-dependent artifacts in your code library. Nice if you want
that, but annoying if it's a surprise. Having an automated build-and-test
protocol using Ant off CVS or Subversion is the way to go.

As a developer it behooves one to play with Ant-based builds outside of any
IDE in order to grok the process. Reading the IDE-generated build.xml and
related files is also quite the educational journey.

--
Lew