BlueJ for the birds?

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mayayana - 05 Oct 2004 16:55 GMT

After getting several recommendations of BlueJ
as a basic Java editor, I installed the latest version.
(I haven't tried JGrasp yet.)
But BlueJ seems to be very buggy. Maybe I'm missing
something? The interface looks sensible and usable
but there were 3 problems from the start, and I haven't
even used the program yet:

1) Every time I start it I get a blue screen error.
(I didn't think to check exactly what it was.)

2) It won't run at all unless allowed to open a port.
I can't imagine why an editor needs Internet access.

3) Every time I start BlueJ.exe, it stays in memory as a service,
ignoring quit messages. (I can't even seem to force-close
it.) If I start it twice I end up with 2 running instances, despite
having closed the program.

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IchBin - 05 Oct 2004 19:35 GMT

> After getting several recommendations of BlueJ
> as a basic Java editor, I installed the latest version.
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> it.) If I start it twice I end up with 2 running instances, despite
> having closed the program.

I recommended JGRASP but if you need support for Blujay they have a
discussion group. Naturally you need to sign up for it at:

http://lists.bluej.org/mailman/listinfo/bluej-discuss

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mayayana - 05 Oct 2004 23:13 GMT

Thanks. I did install JGrasp and that seems
to work fine.

> I recommended JGRASP but if you need support for Blujay they have a
> discussion group. Naturally you need to sign up for it at:
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> 'Laughter is inner jogging'
> - Norman Cousins, editor and author (1915-1990)

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Kerry Sanders - 07 Oct 2004 02:03 GMT

>I recommended JGRASP but if you need support for Blujay they have a
>discussion group. Naturally you need to sign up for it at:

jGRASP is a nice tool. I downloaded it tonight and played around with it for a
while. It has a lot of utilities right at your fingertips... documentation
generation, UML generation, etc.

I was surprised to see that it is maintained by someone at Auburn University as
well.

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IchBin - 07 Oct 2004 08:11 GMT

>>I recommended JGRASP but if you need support for Blujay they have a
>>discussion group. Naturally you need to sign up for it at:
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> I was surprised to see that it is maintained by someone at Auburn University as
> well.

Also has project management, project jar creation... etc.
Please go over the features/docs so you do not miss any features that
will make your experience even more enjoyable.

At the site it has an explanation of the history of this IDE. Yes was
written by the Computer/Engineering department. So they must use it to
teach programming at univ.

I like it for the features but mainly because of it's small footprint.

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- Norman Cousins, editor and author (1915-1990)

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