On Jan 1, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Ralph Goers 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. > > As for me, all I can say is that I love IntelliJ. Everyone I know would > prefer to use it if they could get someone else to pay for it. > > Ralph
Getting someone else to pay for your things is always a great first choice ;-) But, the pricing model of IDEA has changed over time and I think many people not currently using it have an erroneous assumption that it is "too expensive" to even try it out. First, the community edition is FREE, both as in speech and beer. You can do quite a lot in just the community edition. The "Ultimate Edition" adds lots of bells and whistles for enterprise development. But even this is free (as in beer) for open source projects and for educational/training/classroom use. $99 for students and teachers, and $249 for a personal license to the whole thing. "Expensive" is a relative term, but let's be honest - $250 for a great tool is not beyond the reach of most software developers, in any countries I am aware of that have an established software engineering industry. See : http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/index.jsp Spring support info: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/spring_framework.html Standard disclaimer : I have no relationship with Jet Brains other than being a long time, happy customer of theirs. Rob -- 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.
