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Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best?

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Patrick May wrote:
> ericmiranda7@gmail.com writes:
>
>> I've heard about Jcreator and eclipse.. which ide would be the best?
>
>       Emacs, of course.
>
> HTH,

Eric,

Patrick is being mostly humorous here.

Emacs is an excellent programmer's editor, and for many languages, IDE, albeit 
not to everyone's taste.

However, for Java and JVM languages the particular Java-based IDEs tend to be 
superior on a pragmatic basis. They are more than just Integrated Development 
Environments, the "IDE" of "IDE", but full application platforms in their own 
right. As presented, both Eclipse and NetBeans provide not only Java language 
tools like debugging and syntax checking, templates for types and methods, 
yada yada, but dashboards for associated resources like databases, web 
servers, application servers (Tomcat, Glassfish, Geronimo, JBoss, ...) and 
much, much more.

Now how much would you pay? Well, they've slashed the price 50% - formerly 
free, now these downloads will cost you nothing.

Even when the raw product doesn't support exactly what you want, you can often 
find a companion for the IDE that does, either via a plugin or a full product 
atop the underlying platform. Aptana, for example, does both for terminal- and 
web-based HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, RoR and HTML5 programming. They 
built their open-source platform atop Eclipse. Consequently you can also use 
it for Java, C++ and the panoply of other things Eclipse already does. I'm not 
aware of a corresponding product built atop NetBeans, but there are a lot of 
products that do build on that equivalently flexible platform. (NetBeans 
already does Java, C/C++, PHP and Groovy.) There are plugins for things like 
Ruby on Rails and so on.

Check out the respective sites and decide for yourself.
In no particular order:

<http://www.eclipse.org/>
<http://netbeans.org/>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/>
<http://www.aptana.com/>

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? ericmiranda7@gmail.com - 2012-06-30 23:32 -0700
  Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-01 03:53 -0700
  Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-01 07:37 -0700
  Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patrick May <patrick@softwarematters.org> - 2012-07-01 14:20 -0400
    Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-01 14:44 -0700
      Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patrick May <patrick@softwarematters.org> - 2012-07-03 20:48 -0400
        Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-03 19:55 -0700
          Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-07-04 09:26 +0100
            Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patrick May <patrick@softwarematters.org> - 2012-07-05 13:36 -0400
              Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-05 13:25 -0700
              Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Joseph Parkton <jparkton@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 21:54 -0700
          Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-04 10:04 -0700
            Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-04 10:14 -0700
              Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-04 10:47 -0700
                Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-04 12:32 -0700
                Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-04 13:01 -0700
                Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-04 16:03 -0700
                Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-04 17:38 -0700
                Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-06 08:29 -0700
  Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2012-08-21 16:21 +0300
    Re: Whay IDE am I supposed to use/is the best? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-21 11:47 -0700

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