However, transitioning to this Eclipse model is not always easy. A case in point is Borland's Java development environment, JBuilder. At the inaugural EclipseCon conference in February 2005, the company announced it would retool JBuilder into an Eclipse plug-in with code available later that year. However, according to a Borland official, the project turned out to be more complicated than expected, and the transition never got off the ground. Earlier this year, the company announced it will be selling off JBuilder and its other development IDEs. The future of any Eclipse-based version remains unknown. Curiously, despite Eclipse's success, JBuilder is the only major Java IDE to fold its cards: Sun NetBeans and Oracle JDeveloper have both been released in new versions, and Sun in particular has announced aggressive product plans. NetBeans has also been winning converts to its platform strategy, which has an important distinguishing benefit. As opposed to Eclipse, NetBeans uses Java's native Swing graphical interface, so client-facing applications do not need to be rewritten—as they must be if they are ported to Eclipse, which uses its own interface library. |
Andrew Binstock sits on the judge's panel for the prestigious Jolt awards and writes about enterprise development tools for InfoWorld and SD Times. In this discussion with Andrew Glover, Binstock explains the technology and market factors shaping the rapid evolution of Java IDEs today. Find out what makes Eclipse the "800 pound gorilla" of Java IDEs, what its weaknesses are, and what the newly released NetBeans 6 is doing to catch up. Binstock also explains the respective appeal of commercial tools like JBuilder, JDeveloper, and IBM Rational Application Developer, and why IntelliJ IDEA is his choice for an IDE that "just works." |
For many Java developers, the IDE is more than a high-powered telescope, it's the Milky Way itself. In this article Coderspieler Nathan Hamblen reminds you how invigorating it can be to write code the old-fashioned way -- by typing in a plain text editor and building with an external script. Not only will this old-school skill save you valuable time when your IDE goes awry, it could be your ticket to learning about newer technologies like Buildr, Jetty, JavaRebel, and more. |
On July 3rd, the Cologne JUG conducted an IDE shootout that included Maxim Shafirov, Mike Aizatsky, and Ann Oreshnikova from JetBrains, Roman Strobl from NetBeans, Wayne Beaton from the Eclipse Foundation, and Frank Nimphius of Oracle. Each of the four groups were given 30 minutes to show off their wares. This gave all that attended the opportunity to see each of the IDEs in action in a head-to-head format. |
What's a BlueJ? All you birders out there will immediately think of the songbird in your back yard. But for those of you who choose to dig a little deeper, you will find that BlueJ is a simplified Java IDE, built upon NetBeans technology with the express purpose of introducing new CS students to object-oriented programming at the high school and introductory university levels. Relax and enjoy an interview with Michael Kölling and Ian Utting, lead designers and developers on the BlueJ team. |
Sun Java Studio Creator (formerly known as Project RAVE) delivers these benefits and helps you to create two-tier web applications that conform to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) BluePrints. In addition, Sun Java Studio Creator simplifies and streamlines access to databases and web services from behind dynamic HTML user interfaces as easy as drag and drop. |
The collaboration of the NetBeans IDE and BlueJ teams has resulted in the NetBeans BlueJ plugin. This tool creates a smooth migration path for students learning the Java programming language from beginner's stage through to the use of professional development tools. In addition, this IDE provides a seamless path for students to switch from educational tools into a full-featured, professional IDE. The BlueJ plugin makes the transition between these two environments easier for students and teachers. Even if you are not familiar with BlueJ, the NetBeans BlueJ plugin is a great way to learn to use an IDE. |
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In the past, creating portlets was a complex process. Now, you can quickly and easily create and test portlets using the NetBeans IDE 6.0 and the OpenPortal Portlet Container 2.0 Beta 2. Deploying the portlets onto the server is also simple. |
The NetBeans version 3.6 is the next major revision to the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The 3.6 release brings users a number of significant improvements, including many improvements to the editor, window navigation, web and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development, as well as new task list functionality and updated support for the Ant build tool and JUnit testing framework. |
Developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) used to be a tricky part of Java technology programming. Although Java Foundation Classes/Swing (JFC/Swing) technology has been around for quite a while, designing professional-looking, cross-platform GUIs can be tedious and prone to error. All this has changed with NetBeans IDE 5.0 and Project Matisse. |
To help you determine whether NetBeans IDE works for you, this article provides an overview of NetBeans IDE, highlights the new features in NetBeans 3.6 IDE, and the upcoming features in NetBeans 4.0 IDE. The article also provides a comparison between NetBeans IDE and Eclipse. |
For Java application developers who are seriously considering building e-commerce storefronts, there's probably no better place to start than the eBay SDK for Java technology and the NetBeans IDE. |
Refactoring in NetBeans 4.1 by Robert Eckstein The NetBeans 4.1 IDE now has built-in support for refactoring. This article helps you to make the most of these up-and-coming tools that allow you to automatically improve source code without changing your application's external behavior. (May 2005) |
What follows are 10 reasons why nearly every developer should take the same leap I did and dump their IDE in favor of a text editor: |
In the early days of open source J2EE Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), I experimented with both NetBeans and Eclipse. Ultimately, I opted for Eclipse. At the time, Eclipse appeared to have a more intuitive UI, faster performance and a deeper library of plug-ins to enhance my development experience. Since then, I have stuck with Eclipse. |
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. This article gives you links to the latest version of Eclipse, information on IBM's involvement with Eclipse, and a guide to some of the most interesting Eclipse IDE projects. Learn what Eclipse is good for, why it is important, how you can get started, and where to learn more about it. |
Myths and misconceptions such as these may be keeping you from using Emacs, potentially a top-notch, full-fledged integrated development environment (IDE) for Java software programming. |
NetBeans is more than an IDE. It is also an open-source project, community, and a rich client application platform. There is certainly more to NetBeans than just a free IDE. In this new series of articles about NetBeans I hope to introduce you to not only the NetBeans IDE but also the project as a whole. |
It is critically important to write correct Javadoc comments. They act as contracts that allow clients to use your methods and classes without the need to dig into the code to understand how it works. In that respect, the current technology does not help create correct content. However, IDEs do provide helping features for managing the creation of content. |
In the current state of affairs, Eclipse does nothing when one modifies the Javadoc comment in an interface. Automatically generating todo tasks is a useful improvement to ease the maintenance work. Such a task may include information such as the modification date and the interface in which the modification was made. |
Greenfoot is a combination of a Java IDE that provides a class browser, compilation, interactive execution, single-step execution, a code editor, etc., on one hand and a framework for creating two-dimensional animations, games, and simulations on the other hand (see Greenfoot Home in Resources). Greenfoot is also available free of charge. |
The NetBeans IDE 4.1, which was released on May 11, 2005, includes Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development capabilities. NetBeans IDE 4.1 is available as a standalone download or bundled with Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 3. |