for me ... in no particular order ... as I glance around my desktop [1] Ant [2] Tomcat/ServletExec [3] JEdit [4] WinAmp2 (v3 keeps crashing on me!) [5] 3 monitors :) [6] Trillian [7] OutlookXP [8] IE6 / NS6 / Opera (once in a while to see) [9] MySQL / MyAdmin.php [10] Putty for SSH [11] HomeSite+ [12] BulletProof FTP [13] SmartCVS (http://www.smartcvs.com/) [14] Lavasoft Ad-Ware ... run once a day! [15] PhotoShop / PaintShopPro for fiddling with the odd image
I develop on Windows2000, but my console windows are open to RedHat/AppleOSX boxes where all the compilation and deployment actually happens. Thanks guys ... got some great URL's to check out there ... will dive in. ||| -----Original Message----- ||| From: Joseph Ottinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ||| Sent: 07 December 2002 12:09 ||| To: JDJList ||| Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Which IDE to use and extra utilities ||| ||| ||| Now THIS is an interesting thread... ||| ||| On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, James Stauffer wrote: ||| ||| > I guess I'll include my vote. I like Source Insight ||| ||| I've not used it. I'll have to change that; I use a lot of ||| editors routinely just to keep up. The next bit is what jazzes me: ||| ||| > BTW, what other types of programs/things do people use to ||| help with ||| > programming? For example here is what I use: ||| > * Mozilla for Javadocs, test code, etc. ||| ||| I'm not going to go line by line, but here's what I use on a regular ||| basis: ||| ||| * IE6, lynx, links, and Mozilla for browsing. Every now and ||| then (rarely, ||| sadly) I fire up Netscape 4 or so just to see how things look. ||| * My editor du jour (and for a lot of past "du jours") is ||| IDEA, www.intellij.com. Fantastic editor. No GUI tools. I ||| don't do them, I do J2EE instead, and IDEA caters to that. ||| ||| I also use Eclipse often enough to keep familiar with it. ||| I've used JEdit and UltraEdit (and Visual SlickEdit, and ||| MultiEdit), as well as NetBeans, Forte, and Visual Age for ||| Java. (And, in the mists of time, Visual Cafe and J++, ||| too.) VCafe I won't use because Symantec broke a promise to ||| their customers. VisualAge's repository sucks, IMHO... ||| really nifty as long as it doesn't bite you, and biting you ||| is one of its top priorities. Eclipse does a VERY good job ||| of fixing it while retaining some of the capabilities. ||| ||| * I use Orion, Resin, and Tomcat for testing servlet ||| containers/application servers. I've also used JBoss, but.. ||| call me crazy, but I far prefer Orion... something about ||| monolithic app servers that cater to the development ||| process just turns me on. Resin is used to catch all the ||| spec issues that Orion might not catch (because of ||| optimizations allowed in the spec). Tomcat is used because, ||| hey, it has LOTS of users and you gotta make sure they can ||| use your stuff too, and simple compliance with the spec ||| isn't enough to guarantee it'll run on Tomcat. ||| ||| * I use cygwin when I'm on Windows, and, um, UNIX when I'm ||| not. Sorry; I'm a programmer/analyst, not a user, and I'd ||| die without having access to tools. Windows does a great ||| job of obscuring stuff, even after you tweak it for useful ||| stuff. My Windows version of preference: XP. ||| ||| * I use winamp 2 for mp3. I'm on a laptop, so my mp3s are ||| my own dadgum bidness. :) Now I just gotta get some powered ||| speakers so I can HEAR my mp3s worth a flip; headphones ||| into the Toshiba's line out just don't cut it. When I hear ||| a snare, I want it to make my knees pop. (Ex-musician here, ||| I'm used to the stage sound, and I used to play ||| LLLLLLOOOUUUUDDDDD. We didn't need air conditioners; we had ||| speakers moving air.) ||| ||| Let's see... ||| ||| * I don't "instant message" much, past IRC. For THAT, I use ||| epic (console-based IRC client, http://www.epicsol.org) ||| with Light (ftp://silug.org/pub/Light). I tend to prowl ||| #java on EFnet, Undernet, and OPN. (Servers: irc.qeast.net, ||| amsterdam.nl.eu.undernet.org, irc.freenode.net, ||| respectively.) I will admit to having an MSN messenger ||| client installed. ||| ||| * Ant. Take Ant away from me and I die. Eclipse and IDEA ||| both have decent build processes, but they suck compared to ||| Ant. If you don't know where Ant can be found, shame on ||| you! ( http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ ) ||| ||| * I use Jakarta's commons-collections, commons-logging, ||| Log4J, ORO, and Lucene with wild abandon. Well, let me take ||| that back: I use MOST of them with wild abandon. I use ||| commons-logging and log4j only because I haven't had time ||| to do anything better yet. :) Those of you who've, um, read ||| JDJ really well might be familiar with why. ||| ||| * I use Opensymphony (http://opensymphony.com) components ||| with TRUE wild abandon, since they've got my blood, sweat, ||| and tears in 'em. Especially Sitemesh, TransformTags, ||| OSCore, and WebWork. ||| ||| * With even TRUER wild abandon, I use PortalWizard ||| (incomplete website: http://portalwizard.com), which is a ||| closed-source project that owes a lot conceptually to ||| opensymphony in many ways. ||| ||| * I use hsqldb (http://hsqldb.sourceforge.com) and PostgreSQL ||| (http://postgresql.org) as my normal testing and deployment ||| databases, respectively. I've also been known to use SQL ||| Server and Oracle DBs. ||| ||| * I have a well-worn set of bits on my HD containing ||| various specs and javadocs from Sun. This is because my ||| laptop isn't always connected to the 'Net and I refer to ||| the spec as much as I can. ||| ||| That's about it, I think - I guess my core tools are IDEA, ||| cygwin, Ant.. and my core libs are some from opensymphony, ||| some from jakarta, and some from portalwizard, and my core ||| testing environments are postgresql, hsqldb, orion, resin, ||| and tomcat. ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
