Russ,
On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
I've decided that I must learn Java and have been looking at which
programs to use for development. BBedit is an obvious solution as I
am a die-hard fan, its very familiar to me, and I have been coding
PHP with it for about 7 years. I've looked at some of the more
recognized JAVA IDEs ... Eclipse, Net Beans, JBuilder, etc .... but
they seem overkill for my level of skill. Still, there are some
features that just seem too good to pass up, such as auto-
completion of methods and such.
My question is:
Are there any BBEdit plugins or templates that Java developers are
using nowadays to increase productivity? What java specific
features does BBEdit have that I might not know about, if any?
[snip]
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but might be a useful
point of reference. (My apologies if it strays too far off-topic for
some.)
I'm a serious BBEdit user, to the point of having the logo on my
office door. However I can't imagine doing Java development without
an industrial strength IDE. Java is hideously verbose if you have to
type all of it yourself. With a strong IDE that includes auto-
completion and auto-correction, Java is fun to code and easy to
read. I'm partial to Eclipse and we use it in our freshmen-level
introduction to programming course where I teach. The two key things
to try with Eclipse are ctrl-space for auto-completion and cmd-1 for
"guess how to fix this". The stuff in the Refactoring menu is also
pure gold.
Despite my praise for Eclipse, I still use BBEdit as a vital part of
my Java coding. Whenever I need to do some serious text editing --
grep find-and-replace, sorting, etc. -- I copy the text from Eclipse,
command-tab to BBEdit, create a new document from clipboard, and
enjoy the sweet BBEdit goodness. A quick copy and paste brings me
back to Eclipse.
I hope an additional perspective is helpful.
Cheers,
Curt
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Curt Clifton, Asst. Professor
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
812.877.8593
Home: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~clifton
Schedule: http://ical.mac.com/curt.clifton/Rose-Hulman
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