From: Fernando Saldanha
> Take a look at IBM Visual Age for Java. I tried JBuilder and found the IBM
> product *much* better. And so did some other people at work. I know some
> people who also preferred Visual Cafe 4 (I have not tried it) over JBuilder.
>
> Visual Age's advantages:
>
> 1) Has own repository, with versioning.
I would list this as a disadvantage. I have used CVS for source code control for
time, and using CVS (or any other external source
code control product) is very awkward with Visual Age.
The versioning built into Visual Age is nicely integrated, and moderately slick, but
without an expensive add-on is not useful in a
team environment.
With CVS I can work either in the office or at home, and to keep a current source is
very easy. Just checkin any changes ("cvs ci")
before you change locations, and then do an update ("cvs update") at the other
location. Two one-line commands and everything stays
in sync. This works just as easily for other members of our team.
You could say that in a team environment, Visual Age has *no* support for versioning,
and is *very* askward to use with your
existing source code tools.
> 2) Advanced IDE.
>
> 3) Fast.
Need enough memory for this to be true. In 256MB it does work rather nicely.
> 4) Cheap. (About $85 for professional version, or even better, subscribe to
> VADD and get a free copy for abou $110).
I got it though a promotion for less than this, but that was 2.0 ... :).
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