Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 1/16/2012 8:24 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:11:30 -0500, Jim Gibson wrote
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One of those might get you started quickly. I haven't used any of them
under Mac OS, so can't recommend any in particular.
It looks like Eclipse might fill the bill,
I strongly suspect that NetBeans would work too.
I need to do some reading to
figure out which version is appropriate - EE, Classic, etc.
desktop apps => Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
server apps => Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
Roughly. AIUI, the SQL support is in the EE edition, but not the standard
edition. If you want to use SQL on the desktop, you might like to get the
EE edition.
The EE edition is basically the standard edition with more perspectives
and views. I don't believe it alters anything that's in the standard
edition. So, if you can spare the disk space, i would suggest getting the
EE edition, so you have a pretty complete Java development environment,
even if you don't use much of the EE bits. You never know, at some point,
you might want to write a little web application.
Although, having said all that, i would suggest not starting with an IDE,
or at least not one of any complexity. An editor with automatic
indentation and syntax highlighting will do; TextWrangler is good, and
actually, XCode is a pretty good Java editor, even if it is lacking as an
IDE.
tom
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