Any opinions on Sun Java Studio, Eclipse et al?

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Adam Lipscombe - 26 Apr 2004 14:15 GMT

Hi Folks,

I know this question has been asked a hundred times at least, but I just
wanted to catch up on the latest opinion prior to making a reccomendation
for a J2EE development IDE.

I am long-term JBuilder user - JB is great but the cost is staggering.
I am hearing good things about Eclipse, and the Java Studio from Sun looks
interesting.

Any opinions?

TIA - Adam

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Shane Mingins - 26 Apr 2004 22:02 GMT

> Hi Folks,
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> Any opinions?

I started to use JBuilder and then someone introduced me to IntelliJ IDEA
... made JBuilder look clunky.

I hear Eclipse is good (and free). Consider Intellij IDEA
http://www.intellij.com/idea/ ... it's around $500 USD but worth every
dollar. See customer comments
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/customers/testimonials.html

Cheers
Shane

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David Segall - 27 Apr 2004 09:37 GMT

>Hi Folks,
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>TIA - Adam

Have a look at Oracle's JDeveloper
(http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/content.html. It is a free, not
time limited download but the license severely restricts what you can
do with programs you write if you do not pay for it. However, at
$1000.00, it is significantly cheaper than the enterprise versions of
Websphere and JBuilder.

If you are just looking for an IDE I think you will find the free,
open source, NetBeans (www.netbeans.org) an easy transition from
JBuilder.

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shay - 27 Apr 2004 19:48 GMT

I'll second the post on Oracle JDeveloper.
For the cost $995 (half the price of a JBuilder upgrade) you get much
more than what you get in eclipse or netbeans or even JBuilder
Including such things as Struts page flow, Visual JSP and Swing user
interface editing, UML modeling, Web services development and
consumption, support for multiple application servers, a complete J2EE
framework and so much more.

Check it out http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev

The license basicalyy says that if you use it for production
development you need to buy it - makes sense doesn't it?

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