> > Is the purpose of Emacs and JDE mostly to give a nice environment
> > for those
> > users who don't have much space, speed, and don't have admin
> > rights on their
> > machine?
>In my case, none of the above,
>All the IDE I have tried(Visual Cafe, JBuilder)
>are incredible slower compare to emacs(I have a pIII 850 btw).
>Do not have the editing power than emacs does,
>the emacs key strokes binding does not do it for me.
>They tend to crash often, are memory hugs, ....
>and I could keep going.
>
>In brief, JDE offers most of the features(or more in some cases)
>of graphical IDE's plus the ability to fully use emacs.
I use VAJ on my pIII 730. I have 512MB RAM (, lets face it, this is becoming
a standard configuration.) At first I thought that Emacs had a much more
powerful editor than VAJ's. VAJ, however, has many nice features, such as
code completion, syntax coloring, speed bar, etc. Of course, it isn't as
customizable! Nevertheless, the only thing that I really miss is the import
wizard and the multiple clipboards.
VAJ has incremental compilation, which is incredible! As soon as you make a
compile time mistake and save it, a little red x marks your class in the
speedbar, and all other classes in the package are also marked that have now
also a compile time error due to the changes. VAJ's "minibuffer" shows the
errors as you switch focus between classes. No more explicit compilation.
VAJ also has a test environment for servlets and EJBs. You don't have to
install a servlet engine. Finally, there are Emacs packages for version
controlling, but VAJ's automatic version controlling is very nice! Not to
mention its debugger.
Theoretically, VAJ should work on various platforms, since it is Java based.
Regards,
Daniel
P.S. I know that VAJ isn't for free... :)
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