On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:06:10PM -0500, Kirk Hutchinson wrote:
>
> > First of all, XEmacs is not an IDE. It's a code editor - that's it.
>
> You obviously know little about it then. It has built-in and (virtually)
> seamless interfaces to compilers, debuggers, and interpreters.
>
> > It's really too bad that more IDEs are not available for Linux.
>
> What do these give you that XEmacs doesn't?
I have used IBM's Visual Age for Java on OS/2. VAJ understands beans. I can
gt beans from any source & import them into VAJ. Once I've done that. I can
use those beans as components to build on in my applications. VAJ can edit
the properties of a bean as I add it to my application code. Just as I can
edit the properties of a Frame or an Applet or a Panel, I can edit the
properties of, oh let's say, an ftp bean I obtain separately.
I've begun readong a book on Java beans: It seams that whereas an IDE such
as Visual Age for C++ would be editing some reporesentation of a window,
frame etc, VAJ is editing my application program itself. It gets the info
to do this from the Beaninfo classes acompanying the beans (and generates
Beaninfo classes for my application).
That's what a good java IDE can give, and I don't really imagine XEmacs can
come close.
It's also why VAJ (and I imagine its competitors) need a strong computer.
no puny P100s with 32 Mb. I have a PII 233 64 Mb and would not wish to use
anything much less.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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