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From: Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting started with Java on a Mac
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:33:12 -0500
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:20:31 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote
(in article <4f14daf0$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>):

> On 1/16/2012 8:24 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:11:30 -0500, Jim Gibson wrote
>>> <http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=java+ide+for+mac+os+x&ie=UTF-8&oe
>>> =UTF-8>
>> 
>>> 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 was thinking NetBeans was targeted towards enterprise apps, obviously I 
need to widen reading.

>> 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

Thank you for the clarifying that.  I'm starting out as a beginner so I'm 
going for desktop apps for now.