On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:44, David W. Van Couvering wrote: > I used to work with Kava and I really liked it. Too bad they missed the > open source wave and instead got sucked into some big company -- I can't > remember who any more. It's nice that the two main IDEs for Java are > both free and open source. No more sneaking VC++ CDs from your friends' > cube... > > David > VC++? Outch. (Bad memories.) Sorry but I'd prefer vi and a white board. (And the occasional use of a profiler and gdb ;-)
I liked how NetBeans had some prebuilt forms like MDI. It could be useful to have a prebuilt database window form, along with some DB extensions to the Swing components. (Anyone still play with Informix's 4GL?) Also I do like the way NetBeans has the ability for someone to write blocks of code that gets inserted in to their generated code. Again usefull for writing possible business logic (before and after field code....) So it looks like we're down to 3 IDEs. Also I notice that if you start with NetBeans, you have to stick with netbeans when you develop GUI code? I think you're going to see a need for some simple tools that can make it easier to port apps to Derby that will improve its acceptance. ;-) -- Michael Segel Principal MSCC (312) 952-8175
