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Recommend IDE or editor

 
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I realize this may be more of a personal preference, but can anyone highly recommend a good java editor or IDE that is open source? If it's an IDE, possibly one with a good debugger? There are so many out there to choose from, and of course they all claim to be the best, so I'm having a hard time deciding.

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[ May 02, 2006: Message edited by: Kwong Yao ]
 
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well there is NetBeans... but it sucks..

you also have Eclipse, and i believe that it is open source..

and fairly easy to use...that's the one they use in the labs...

the only thing good about ide's is it shows the number of the line lol..

notepad is perfect.

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Originally posted by Justin Fox:

notepad is perfect.



The only thing notepad.exe is good for is testing scp.

Eclipse is really the industry standard IDE. There are also plenty of great programmer's editors, free and commercial; pick your poison. But friends don't let friends program using notepad. You could wash your car with a Q-Tip; but there are better tools for the job.

I'm moving this to our "IDEs, Version Control, and Other Tools" forum.
 
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For learning Java, notepad or another basic text editor is a far better choice than a fullfledged IDE.
The latter will bog down the unwary in its own quircks while hiding fundamental language issues and tool usage which the working professional will need to know about.

For the working pro on the job, flexibility is more important than personal preference. While some companies may allow you to use your own preferred toolset far more have a fixed corporate standard set of software and will require you to use that whether you like it or not.

So you'd better know how things work without highend tools so you can better and quicker learn to use the tools provided (if any).

And always learn to use VI well, as it's the only editor sure to exist on almost any computer.
 
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Thanks for the advice. I'll start off simple with editor them move up to eclipse once I get a hang of java things.
 
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Textpad is a nice basic editor, syntax highlighting (basic) and line numbering. It has a free trial period but is very inexpensive should you wish to purchase it. www.textpad.com
 
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