Here is a message I sent to the freebuilder list a while ago.
At the time,(april 98) I titled it "A dream come true".
Since then, it just got better and better.
I hope you find this IDE as useful as I do. I have been doing all my
developpement in it for the last 3 month and every week I discover a new
feature that helps in my work.
Tell me what you think.
Regards,
Richard
>
> For all those who desperately needed a professionnal IDE to make
> there developpement in java under Linux, the wait is over. Just take a
> look at this tool called "Wipeout" at:
>
> http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html
>
> Sorry for all those Windows friend but there is no Win32 version. I am
> sure you will be happy for us that for once we have something that you
> don't have. In my opinion if you are a serious java programmer, this IDE
> alone is enough to switch to Linux.
>
> It will not replace Freebuilder if the people that seem to have
> appropriate it for themself ever release it in the community, but at
> least, in the mean time, we will have something to code it in. And
> something so well designed that the bar have raised quite a bit higher to
> compete with.
>
> Here are just a few of the features:
>
> 1: Smalltalk like classbrowser;(not that ugly, always in the way, tree
> simily browser). See all the classes of your project at once; click on any
> class ant see all the methods in another pane, click on any method and get
> right there in the source.
Once you are used to that you wonder how you could have find you way in a
program with more then 10 classes before.
> 2: Graphical front end for the JDB debugger. Set breakpoint visualy,
> inspect variables, step in code, name it.
>
> 3: Graphical front end for CVS version control. Make changes everywhere
> in a project and if it doesn't work roll back to a working version. Not to
> mention the workgroup possibility of CVS fully supported.
>
> 4: Entirely configurable, through regular expression, pretty printing in
> the editor with font, bolt italic and regular and custom color. And as a
> bonus the pretty printing is even supported for the printer with, as an
> extra bonus, a print preview.
>
> 5: All the documentation very well done in html with html reader build in.
> Does not support java documentation yet but if we are enough java
> developers to ask, who know.
It does now.
>
> P.S. I am not related to sofwarebuero in any ways. Just very enthusiastic
> to have found something I have been looking for in the last two years.
>
>
>
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