Yeah, RAD can get mighty expensive after the trail period. But pure eclipse is a very nice platform too (NetBeans is starting to grow on me) with a lot of open source plugin support available as well.
--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Vaibhav Pandey <vaibhav.pan...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Vaibhav Pandey <vaibhav.pan...@gmail.com> Subject: [java ee programming] Re: RAD Free download version -- Trail for 60 days | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rad/ To: mail2kond...@gmail.com Cc: java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 5:19 PM what do you do after 60 days? either pay which serves no purpose using Open Source Java and using paid version of J2EE IDE. I have used it myself, RAM is not a problem but how much it costs to actually use it. Srikanth Kondeti wrote: > Folks, > who are interested in RAD, you can download from this link below. > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rad/ > > I have used RAD7 version and now 7.5 version has come. > > Njoy the RAD world. > > Thanks > Srikanth > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Karl <karlk...@yahoo.com > <mailto:karlk...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > RAD isn't really "free". In fact, it can be really expensive. RAD > is Eclipse + IBMs additions to the open source product. While you > can get an evaluation copy of RAD (or any of the other convoluted > Eclipse based packages that IBM offers), I'm sorry I added RAD to > the subject line, I should have simply asked about Eclipse. > > regards, > Karl > > --- On *Wed, 2/18/09, Manjula Srinivas /<talk2manj...@gmail.com > <mailto:talk2manj...@gmail.com>>/* wrote: > > From: Manjula Srinivas <talk2manj...@gmail.com > <mailto:talk2manj...@gmail.com>> > Subject: [java ee programming] Re: NetBeans vs. Eclipse/RAD, > etc... > To: ruchir.pan...@gmail.com <mailto:ruchir.pan...@gmail.com> > Cc: mick.tim...@gmail.com <mailto:mick.tim...@gmail.com>, > karlk...@yahoo.com <mailto:karlk...@yahoo.com>, > java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com > <mailto:java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com> > Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 5:25 PM > > For a long time I had been think to explore a bit about RAD, > Can anyone give me the link to download RAD for free. Any > documents to use the same will be helpful as well. Thanks in > advance, Manjula On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM, ruchir > pandit <ruchir.pan...@gmail.com > <mailto:ruchir.pan...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi Mick, > I am > also using IBM RAD. I don't see any issue here. The only issue > is it > consumes more memory than Eclipse so make sure that > RAM supports this. Let > us know if you run into any issue. > > Thanks, > Ruchir > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Mick > Timony <mick.tim...@gmail.com <mailto:mick.tim...@gmail.com>> > wrote: >> >> I'm not using Eclipse for this course, but I've > used IBM's Rad & Eclipse a >> lot over the years. I don't > think it'll be problem to do the course using >> either of > those IDE's, just make sure when you submit your homework as a > WAR >> file that you include the source also (there should be > a checkbox on the WAR >> file creation window). >> >> Luck >> > Mick >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Karl > <karlk...@yahoo.com <mailto:karlk...@yahoo.com>> wrote: >>> > >>> Hey folks, >>> I know this tutorial recommends the use of > NetBeans as the IDE for the >>> course, but I've been using > RAD for quite some time now. So: >>> 1) Are others using > Eclipse for this course and find it easy to translate >>> the > instructions from one IDE (NetBeans) to the other (Eclipse) > or, >>> 2) for ease of ramp up, just use NetBeans and get to > it <g> ! >>> >>> ~Karl >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java EE (J2EE) Programming with Passion!" group. To post to this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
