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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 09:11:01 +0930 (CST)
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Java IDEs
Message-ID:  <200005262341.JAA78444@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000526212811.6683.qmail@hotmail.com> from John Daniels at "May 26, 2000 05:28:11 pm"

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John Daniels wrote:
> I should have mentioned that I intend to use the IDB with FreeBSD native JDK 
> 1.2.2 (patchset 8 and future patchsets).  So I would like information only 
> on IDEs that will run under FreeBSD (preferably native).
[snippage]
> Is there much difference between JBuilder Foundation, Forte Community 
> Edition (leaving out IBM for the moment because of an apparent lack of JDK 
> 1.2.2 support in their free IDE)?   For example, both Inprise and Sun seem 
> to reserve EJB development to the high-end Enterprise products.  How easy is 
> it to install these IDE's?  I assume that they only run on FreeBSD under 
> Linux emulation.

No real comments on which IDEs are best (I've only had some indirect
experience with VisualCafe, and it wasn't a good experience ;).  However,
I've seen reports on the list recently of both Forte and JBuilder running
with patchset 8.  The only caveat was that you needed to install jpda.jar
from the Blackdown JDK to get JBuilder running.  YMMV.

-- 
Greg Lewis 				glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au
Computing Officer			+61 8 8303 5083
Teletraffic Research Centre


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