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Looking for free Java IDE

Started by timmay314 Jun 10, 2004 at 10:53 AM 9 replies 550+ views
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timmay314
timmay314
I''m looking for a good free Java IDE. Right now I''m using JCreator, which has many features that annoy me and doesn''t pop up with a list of available methods when I put a . after an object name (a feature I cannot live without). Can someone recommend a good IDE? I suppose I would even be willing to pay for one if it isn''t too expensive and it''s much better than anything you can get for free.
paulecoyote
paulecoyote
netbeans is free from sun and is great to start off with. Supports ant, has a form designer and lets you do web stuff too.
http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/ide/

Netbeans can be a bit slow but is feature heavy. A few people will no doubt suggest IBMs Eclipse - but that''s a bit harder to get going sometimes - and I don''t think form designers are as easy to come by and encourages use of non-sdk form widgets.
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Raghar
Raghar
jEdit with some plugins.
rohde
rohde
All very good suggestions. Let me add some.

JBuilder is very nice and in edition 10. Very powerful. The personal edition is free (check Borland's site).

JCreator is a very good IDE without any bells and whistles. But what it does it does extremely well. Probably the best for newbies in Java. To get the intellisense feature of JCreator just buy the pro version it costs almost next to nothing.


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[edited by - rohde on June 10, 2004 3:00:39 PM]

[edited by - rohde on June 10, 2004 3:01:40 PM]
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markr
markr
Eclipse - it''s definitely the best. Not just the best free one, the best one altogether. Its advanced features (particularly geared towards refactoring and rapid development) are unparalleled; perhaps it offers less for the novice though.

What there isn''t is any kind of GUI builder. The stable version does not (to the best of my knowledge) include a debugger. But what it does do, it does very well.

Mark
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That above post was me. I thought I was logged in. Wierd login system here.

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Arild Fines
Arild Fines
quote:
Original post by markr
The stable version does not (to the best of my knowledge) include a debugger.

Eclipse definitely has a debugger.



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Johnson5001
Johnson5001
I prefer NetBeans over Eclipse. I am not too experienced with Eclipse (only used it occasionally for specific purposes), but I don''t think there''s a GUI form editor (maybe not available in my version) like the one in NetBeans. Overall, I find NetBeans easier to navigate around than Eclipse.
Aldacron
Aldacron
THere are a few different GUI form editors for Eclipse available as plugins. And IIRC I read not too long ago about one which will eventually be included in the main distro for Swing/AWT/SWT.

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