I believe there is a family of development tools referred to as RAD . Apparently
VisualAge and Visual Cafe are members of this family.
A RAD gives you the tool to drag and drop GUI elements such as labels buttons. I
would love to see a RAD for linux.
Other than Visual Cafe the rest of the IDE and RAD for I have seen are
experimental or buggy slow me down .
I have been earning my living doing Java for almost three years now. The bottom
line is which one gives me the tools to do my work faster .
So far Visual Cafe is my choice. The last version I tried was Visual Cafe 2.5
well better than the rest but not as good as I expected .
I installed GRASP from
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/ few day ago.
It looks promising.
Regards
Mehrdad
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John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 11:11:08AM +0100, Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
>
> > John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> > I personally do not use highly integrated IDEs and it seems that you do
> > not also, but do not think that Xemacs is an IDE - it is just very smart
> > editor. What it lacks ?
> >
> > Graphical composition of GUI components, including positioaning them,
>
> I'm sorry, but you can certainly have IDEs without this. I remember using
> Borland C++ 2.0 under DOS, which had what everyone would call an IDE.
> Before that, I used Turbo Pascal 5.5 under DOS, which also had an IDE -- and
> everyone called it that. XEmacs has far more features than either of those,
> both IDE-wise and otherwise, so I cannot understand how you can claim that
> something that does more than other IDEs is not an IDE.
>
> > disvovering their properties by beans mechanism, creating handlers for
> > them by simple clicking, editing their properties with instant effect on
> > the screen.
>
> So what you're wanting is a Java visual development environment.
> Incidentally, I have yet to see one of those that I like, for Java or
> otherwise. They often work by laying out components at certain pixel
> locations, which is even worse in Java than elsewhere, because fonts and
> sizes of widgets can vary tremendously between systems. Also, none of them
> that I've seen will do Swing, which I use, so that rules them all out. Back
> to XEmacs.
>
> > is really pitty one. I'm talking about something with ability to check
> > variables by moving mouse over them , graphically displaying and
> > followingg instance variables (as ddd does) etc.
>
> I've never used jdb, but I must say that for a debugger, I prefer gdb.
> Nothing else, except perhaps the XEmacs interface to it, is really
> acceptable. I find that limitations of a GUI get to be cumbersome in many
> cases.
