>
> The no-brainers that made the list right away are Visual Age,
> JBuilder, and NetBeans, because they all run (or will soon) on
> Linux. Can anybody give opinions or sources of info that will
> help us with this decision? What I want to prepare is a feature-
> for-feature comparison.
>
I am very pro Visual Age!
Overall it gives you very much controll over lots of code. But I think that the three
top features are:
1) Debugger.
a)run time changes,
b)drop in the stack,
c)change values runtime,
d)break on chosen exceptions
e)"move around" in the environment, i.e. you can inspect any object call any
method at runtime (without changing any code)
These features in the debugger are Really helpfull. Imagine e.g. that you get a
NullPointerException.... the execution will stop, you get an idea make changes and
continues without restarting.
2) Versioning. The versioning is built up in four levels. Project, package, class
and method, I think this is a much better aproach than the java file approach.
Anything you every save is in the repository, you never have to bother about ever
loosing something cause it is always there. (the Enterprise edition also support users
and ownership). Some ppl complain about the versioning system in Visual Age. I find
this very strange though anybody who choose to save the code in another versioning
tool is free to do so. There is also a CVS repository on the way.
3) Code management.
a) Fast access to all code. With key combination you have the source of any
class.
b) code completion,
c) good search engine. e.g. search on all references to a certain field,
method, class
d) an overall very nice way to represent the code.
/isaac
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