Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac
On 1/19/2012 8:09 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
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.
Support for writing SQL files may be a EE edition thing.
But that is not in my opinion a common thing to do for desktop app
development.
Plain JDBC with embedded SQL or an ORM for writing the code
and then creating the database structure in a database tool.
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.
True.
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.
Or jEdit or UltraEdit or NotPad++ or NEdit or ... - there are
plenty of decent editors around.
I agree with the point that every new Java developer should learn
to develop using a standard editor and command line editor to learn
about classpath, jar files etc.etc..
Arne