My two cents on editors, I have used 3 over the past 2 months.
I am currently using Forte.
Forte
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Good parts:
-Its free.
-Very logical in its arrangements
-Offers all the basic features I would expect from an IDE.
-Handles JSP pages in a nice manner and you can run the JSP
pages straight out of the editor using its own servlet container
-Easy to learn
Bad Parts
- won't generate Jar files for you
- SLOW SLOW SLOW SLOW and oh I did I mention its SLOW?
- the hot metal interface doesn�t work quite the way you would like
in a windows environment which is distracting
- Slow, sorry but its slow enough to be mentioned twice
Unless you have a fast machine I cannot recommend it. I will probably
won�t stick to this editor unless SUN speeds up its performance.
It really is a nice JAVA IDE and I do like Forte alot, and I want
to keep using it but the slowness and its odd screen habits are too
distracting.
http://www.sun.com/forte/ffj/ce/download.html
IBM Visual Age
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Good parts
-Very visual, lots of meaty drag and drop style coding with an easy
to understand interface
- Its free if you use under 750 classes
-Has a code repository to die for!
- has a nice java code library to expand your code with
Bad parts
-not intuitive takes a while to get use to
-ITs very visual, I couldn't easily create my own beans from the ground
up, it seemed to force me to use its visual system
-if you use their beans and library objects you can lock yourself
into their IDE for all practical purposes
IN the end I dropped using Visual age since I found it too hard to
code my beans without Visual Age wanting to use it�s visual design mode.
(I suppose thats why its called VISUAL AGE) But I still drool for that
repository.
Sybase PowerJ
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Good Parts
-Has the most awesome built in help system, very easy and powerful
drag and drop help and coding
Bad Parts
No support for JSP yet.
The debugger is poor at best. In fact,
I never did get the debugger working right in PowerJ
I ended up stopping using PowerJ due to its lack of JSP Support and its lack
of solid Java 1.2 support. You can use Java 1.2 in PowerJ but it still has
some major Ties to vm1.1.8. The next release is supposed to upgrade past
these concerns however. While I find PowerJ to be a solid Java editor, its
not meant for JSP development yet.
My next editor stop over probably will be Jrun, since I like HomeSite and
>From what I have seen of it, it is basically HomeSite for Java
Casey Kochmer
www.JSPInsider.com a new JSP web site :)
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>What about Forte 4 Java????
>
>Love Always,
>Abhishek Shodhan.
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