I asked this question over a year and half ago and opted for Jbuilder, which my company has been using since then. The other choice was IBM's Visual Age - both of these products have consistently vied for first and second place in various product reviews for several years now.
First of all, while the JBuilder Enterprise is very pricey (since you are paying for Borland's Application Server and Visibroker CORBA, also owned by Borland). However, anyone can download Jbuilder Personal for free. This is what our company did - it bought one Enterprise license and got free versions for individual developers. You can opt for Jbuilder Professional later - there are strong reasons to do so since the Personal version does not provide the nifty database-enabled beans and wizards, which are what make an IDE so useful. Secondly, you should be aware that Oracle's Jdeveloper IDE is in fact a rebranded version of Jbuilder. Moreoever, Sybase has apparently decided to stop developing its PowerJ product and has opted to integrate its products with Jbuilder as well. So that is a strong endorsement from the top database companies. Finally, Borland has just purchased the TogetherSoft CASE tool so in the near future there will be an integration between TogetherSoft's UML modeling tool and Jbuilder to enable applications to be generated from the object models. Yours truly, George Mitchell Terra Encounters Telephone: (613) 836-3284 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Vikrant Venkanna Dessai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:54 AM To: JDJList Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Which IDE to use guys can u help me decide which ide to go for i a m starting a project which is mainly a swing application can anyone give me the comparison of forte , eclipse and jbuilder thanks in advance regds ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
