I've decided to use Eclipse as my
IDE. It seems to be working for development, but I don't know how to make a deployable app with it. Either a .jar or a Mac OS X .app would be better.
I've found that in Eclipse, under the "File" menu, you can choose "Export". You are given several options, among these are to create a Mac OS X application, but the resulting app doesn't work. There are pieces missing from the Mac OS X app when you look at it in the Findert with the command "Show Package Contents".
In my previous job, when we updated our code from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, we wrote shell scripts to put all of the pieces together. I seems like Eclipse's feature to create a Mac OS X app isn't finished yet.
You are also given the choice to create a .jar file, but this option doesn't work either. The .jar file is missing the manifest. I've created a Manifest file, but I don't know how to put it into my project so that it is automatically inserted into my .jar file.
-- Kaydell
[ December 07, 2006: Message edited by: Kaydell Leavitt ]