• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Need to switch from Codeguide

 
Greenhorn
Posts: 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I need to switch my IDE from codeguide, I loved 7 but version 8 seems to have screwed up a lot of the autocomplete features and it looks like the company is at a dead end. A lot of the code inspection features stoppped working as well between 7 and 8. I have only tried Eclipse but it was so clunky compared to CG 8, I'd like to find something with the clean interface and keyboard shortcuts as CG, as well as better ant support (auto script generation would be great) and better refactoring, code analysis and inspection. Any recommendations from the group? IDEA, NetBeans...? I'm in a corporate environment so pay software is not an issue.
 
Tim Patton
Greenhorn
Posts: 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
bump?
 
author & internet detective
Posts: 41860
908
Eclipse IDE VI Editor Java
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Tim,
Missed this the first time around - Thanks for the bump.

I haven't used it, but I've heard NetBeans and IDEA have good Ant support. Then again, so does RAD (the paid version of Eclipse.)

It's hard to recommend a good IDE that everyone will find good. What kind of code do you develop - POJOs, web, EJB, etc? If web or EJB, what server do you deploy to? Sometimes the integration is a deciding factor.
 
Sheriff
Posts: 67746
173
Mac Mac OS X IntelliJ IDE jQuery TypeScript Java iOS
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I used to use CodeGuide and switched to IntelliJ IDEA. At first I missed the on-the-fly compiling, but got used to that pretty quickly.
 
Tim Patton
Greenhorn
Posts: 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I did like my first stabs at intellij when I tried it. I do really miss the on the fly compiling and analysis, to the point where I think that would be my biggest priority in finding a replacement. Second would be really good code completion (CG made it easy, tab and F1 did pretty much everything and the computer was good at guessing what you wanted). Does anything do this or is CG the only solution at the moment?

As a side note, shame omnicore dropped the ball so bad. Maybe someday someone will make a clone and fix the bugs.
 
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic