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I know this may not be the right forum. But i wanted some feedback from people who have taken WCD1.4 as to which IDE's they used to pratice for the exam. I have a 256mb RAM laptop and not gonna uograde it for some time.
I'll second that. Anything more than a text editor (i'm partial to vi ) and command line is overkill for the sample code you'll write in preperation for the exam.. IMO.. And not only is it overkill, it might undermine your understanding of the nuts and bolts that you'll be tested on.
Hi I prefer JCreator LE it has got the simplicity of text editors like notepad. On the other hand it adds color to your code, which makes code writing more pleasant. You can compile your code from the command line and stick to the basic coding for servlets and JSP's. JCreator does not provide you with any kind of automated code generation and therefore you stick with the nuts and bolts.It is easy available for free, and easy to download and configure.
In fact, I never used any other IDE than Textpad. I had this belief that IDEs add their own APIs, and the compiled classes might not work in a different JVM as expected to work. So I always compile from command prompt. :-) But I really like this one. I am switching to jEdit!! But I am still sticking on to my compile-from-commandprompt thing.
I had this belief that IDEs add their own APIs, and the compiled classes might not work in a different JVM as expected to work.
Eclipse doesn't add it's own APIs. I like eclipse and there are lot of plugins available. But from an "exam point of view", i would rather use textpad. Because you will then understand what needs to be added to the code to get it working, rather than the IDE doing half of the job. [ September 13, 2004: Message edited by: Giju George ]
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4, SCBCD 1.3, SCEA
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Originally posted by Giju George: But from an "exam point of view", i would rather use textpad. Because you will then understand what needs to be added to the code to get it working, rather than the IDE doing half of the job.
Nice recommendation... Even though I use JBuilder in my work, during SCWCD preparation, I only used EditPlus...
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Hey Nicholas,
Can WSAD 5.0 be used on 256mb laptop? I know it is not recommended, but I want learn the tool and am not gonna upgrade my system any time soon.
Can WSAD 5.0 be used on 256mb laptop? I know it is not recommended, but I want learn the tool and am not gonna upgrade my system any time soon.
I am afraid not, I guess you will experience with a super slow speed.
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Thanks all for your replies. I have continued using TextPad for my work. Its really a cool tool. Sekhar and Nicholas since u guys used WSAD 5.0 I had just one question, Can we install WSAD5.0 on a laptop with 256mb. Will it be a major performance hit OR Will it be OK?
Thanks all guys, - Kits --------------------------- SCJP 1.4
I use Text pad.U can load java,jsp,html and whole variety of syntax files into that which helps to see different colors for differnt parts of the code.
WSAD needs minimum of 512 MB RAM and if you try to run it on 256 it will really be a major performance hit. Don't try to do this... unless you have no work for the whole day...
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) and command line is overkill for the sample code you'll write in preperation for the exam.. IMO.. And not only is it overkill, it might undermine your understanding of the nuts and bolts that you'll be tested on.
