I've spent the past several days doing nothing but reading i'net sites
on java, ordering books and more reading...  Unfortunately, I'm don't
feel much further along than I was when I started...
I'm trying to port (well, rewrite) a program I wrote for a handheld

The project I work on has an external build system.  I want to use
this system and have eclipse accept the class files generated.
But eclipse insists on recompiling all the classes again using its
internal compiler.

I'm want to experiment with Java and I'd like to find an IDE that
I'm comfortable with. I run Windows 2000.
All the Java IDE's that I've looked at so far run in a single "master"
window and personally I just hate this because everything gets so

Is there any free or open source tool that can make html from java source
(one class is one html page) where fields, methods and parameters are links
to another html (java source) page. Browse-able source code with html.
In this way I can trace method calls with html links.

I'm using the Eclipse IDE for Java development, but am running into
some problems with the "Content\Code Assist" feature. Normally, when I
partially enter the name of a particular class of package, the IDE
automatically displays possible completions based on that string of

I am trying to create a class using Visual editor in eclipse when the
message came as
"Creation of element failed.Attempted to begin rule P/test.....do not match
outer scope rule L/test/test.java",

I'm looking for some guidance on designing makefiles for Java
projects.  Yeah, I suppose I should learn to use Ant, but I already
understand make (somewhat :-) and I'd like to start out with something
I know.

Do you know any tools that would help me in composing a deployable
mac-app, so called application bundle.
This tool would have to run in windows or linux and my (java) app in mac.
Browsing through earlier threads I read about this Install Anywhere,

JChain SA edition is a toolkit for copy protection and flexible license
management of Java apps.
* Free evaluation download
http://www.chainkey.com/en/jchains/doc/index_evaluation.htm

Okay, this is a little more inane than most of the "I want to use
Eclipse to develop JSP...." posts.
I'm not asking for keyword completion or syntax highlighting or
debugging. All I want is to be able to configure Eclipse so that I can