Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:36:53 -0400 From: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" <mike.jeays@statcan.ca> To: "'Chris'" <chris@tourneyland.net>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: State of Java Development on FreeBSD Message-ID: <F2DCDE350C71D411A68900902715763B9F62A5@msxa4.itsd.statcan.ca>
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I would strongly recommend going all the way to a FreeBSD desktop, running either KDE or Gnome. There are lots of good tools nowadays; for editors, I like Nedit as a simple but very powerful tool - and it is surely better than TextPad. There are IDEs for Java development, although I haven't personally used any of them. There are lots of inexpensive video cards these days that are well supported by X-Windows, and which will give more than adequate performance for the kind of work you describe. Look through the (long) list of supported cards in the FreeBSD Handbook, and choose one of those. You should have no trouble installing and configuring X-Windows with a recent FreeBSD release. -----Original Message----- From: Chris [mailto:chris@tourneyland.net] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:49 AM To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: State of Java Development on FreeBSD (This is sort of a unrelated followup to my previous posting) Hey all, I'm developing some server-side java code. I'm a Windows guy (though I've been running FreeBSD for over a year now, half-assedly hosting some Web sites), and thus far I've been doing all my development on Windows, using jikes as my compiler and Apache for Windows as my Web server. But ultimately, everything's going to be served by FreeBSD, and it's time I start testing on a FreeBSD machine. One option would be to go all the way - get X-Windows running on my local FreeBSD dev machine, learn emacs or something, and make that my desktop machine. I'm a little intimidated by this prospect, in that I've never even successfully gotten X installed before (I've made a few tries, but was undone by undocced cheapy video cards and gave up). If I go this route, any suggestions for development tools? I don't need any fancy form designers or any visual stuff - I'm currently using Textpad and compiling from the command line fom Windows, and all I really need is a little project managment stuff. A (potentially) simpler option would be to keep my Windows machine as my development machine, and through a combination of Samba and I guess some other stuff, control my Free machine from my Windows machine. Samba would be good enough for file editing, but for compiling and running I suppose I'd have to Alt-Tab back and forth to a telnet window, which isn't too savory. Are there tools out there for doing this sort of thing that I'm not aware of? Thanks, Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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