Re: Java IDE & graphic library

[Kay-Uwe Kasemir <kasemirk@ornl.gov>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:06 , Claude Saunders wrote:
>  - Claude "I don't use an IDE, but that doesn't stop me from having  
> an opinion." Saunders
In the (distant) past, I had used Turbo Pascal, Borland C++,
Visual Studio, KDeveloper, and every time came back
to vi, make, emacs.

Eclipse was the first IDE that really appealed to me
- it doesn't force you to create your project in a specific way.
You can locate your sources and binary in pretty much any place,
and also import existing projects.
- the java support is really nice: completion, compile-as-you-type
error checking
- the absolute killer is the refactoring.
Not just rename classes, but extract sections of code into their
own subroutine, extract methods into interfaces etc.

All that is perfectly usable for plain Java code that before or after
being edited inside Eclipse bears no mark of ever having been in
contact with it.

Netbeans might be similar, I don't know.

I didn't like the Eclipse GUI interface builder.
Maybe because it only really works well on Win32,
maybe because I never liked any GUI interface builder.

-Kay