Re: Intellij IDEA vs Eclipse/MyEclipse

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:43:05 -0400
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<461acf6d$0$90271$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
JavaCoder wrote:

I recently took on a consulting assignment with a number of front-end
technologies like struts, html/css, jsp and some other backend
technologies like hibernate. I want to settle on a single IDE and am
trying to decide between the latest Intellij IDEA or Eclipse enhanced
with MyEclipse. I'm been mainly a serverside guy and need to get up
to speed quickly with the front-end stuff.

One thing I keep hearing of is how intuitive IDEA is, but whenever I
got stuck, the manuals seem woefully lacking. For instance, I
couldn't figure out how to create a deployment war with a custom
directory structure. In MyEclipse, it was basically how you
structured your folders under the web context root.

I don't mind some learning curve just want to know whether one has
clear advantages over the other.


I would say go with what you like. You are very likely most
productive using that.

And I would suggest using the IDE for writing code and
ant for building.

Arne

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