On Jan 1, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Richard Fearn wrote: > On 1 January 2011 16:16, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 1, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Richard Fearn wrote: >> >> "... I think Eclipse probably has the best support"... "I don't know what >> support is like in other IDEs, like NetBeans though". >> >> Somehow I'm having trouble reconciling these two statements. > > Yeah, sorry :-) The point I was trying to make is that SpringSource > themselves provide an IDE for Spring development, which is based on > Eclipse, so I imagine Eclipse has the best support.
While I'm aware that SpringSource has their own IDE that is based on Eclipse, my understanding from attending their conference and the SpringSource web site (http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts) is that this is a Spring IDE based on Eclipse. You can't download Eclipse and then add on STS, so to me this is not Eclipse but a separate IDE. I've seen other vendors do the same thing, which means that even though you may be an Eclipse user you can't use a single Eclipse instance for your development. Instead, you would have to switch from STS to the other vendor's IDE, etc. to take advantage of the features. I prefer to stick with a single IDE that does a great job across the board, not with just a single focus, especially when that focus is promoting locking you into to a single vendor's products. Ralph -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
