Re: Java IDE & graphic library

[Claude Saunders <saunders@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi,
It's not looking to me like anyone in the free IDE category is going to 
clearly win. Both Eclipse and NetBeans have ardent followers. It does 
look like the EPICS community is leaning towards Eclipse from what I can 
see, though.

But regardless of which IDE you use, any (java) project one creates 
should be buildable outside the IDE using Ant. This is actively 
supported and encouraged for Eclipse. You just need to put in a small 
effort to create a build.xml file along with your project. This allows a 
developer to use whatever IDE they choose (or none, for emacs types such 
as myself). Projects that use Ant build.xml are naturally portable 
across IDE.

 - Claude "I don't use an IDE, but that doesn't stop me from having an 
opinion." Saunders


Lecorche Eric wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I suppose it is quite a recurrent question but as we are starting our 
> project, we wonder about the community feeling concerning the Java IDE 
> to be adopted, considering the fact that Java is quite a new 
> environment for us.
>
> So, what Java IDE do you suggest to be preconised for a new project ? 
> Our preferences would make us look further both at Eclipse and 
> NetBeans (also someone in the lab uses Jbuilder) ; among the Epics 
> users, is there any consensus for one of these ? Are there any ways 
> later to move from one IDE to an other one or does this choice will 
> impact the whole life of the project ?
>
> The same type of question also apply for the graphic library to use 
> (Teechart, Jchart, Jfreechart ... other ?). Is it possible to 
> standardize one or does it depend on the GUI to be created ?
>
> Eric Lecorche