Hi Jonathan, hi everyone,
> Perhaps it is offtopic, but I AM interested. How would you compare
> VAJava 2.0 to Visual Cafe or JBuilder 2? I'm wanting to settle on (and learn)
> an IDE so I can get the mechanics out of the way and focus on the language.
As I got some messages asking for some more info, I decided to send one more
off-topic message to the group. Please forgive me for that, but it is still
somewhat related :-)
You try out VAJava Entry Edition, which is free and may downloaded from
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2590. This version has most of
the features of the final release, but it has a limit in the number of classes you
may have. I would strongly recomend you to watch the screencams available at
http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/vajscdemo.htm. It is a tutorial where some
of the features are shown in the VAJava environment itself. I bet you'll be
impressed as well :-D. This tutorial was for VAJava 1.0, hence the new version 2.0
has those features + some more... I really think that IBM will someday release
VAJava for Linux as they already released it for AIX...
I don't know much about VisualCafe, but it seems (as far as I know by reading
postings by others) to use an external JDK to compile. On one hand this lets you
choose which JVM you wanna use, on the other hand it does not offer as many
features as VAJava... Not sure about Jbuilder as well. VJ++ earns no remarks here
as it does not implement Java yet (as defined by Sun).
> Do the VA products have a similar functionality? If so, I would like to
> look at VAC++ for WIndows as well.
Yes, they do. I just started looking into VAC++. It does have a lot of differences
but it from VAJava you'd be confortable enough with it.
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