RE: Jave IDE

[Christopher J. Mackie]

I've been using Eclipse (www.eclipse.org), an industrial-strength IDE which
is easy to configure for Swarm, plus has Ant and CVS built-in, as well as a
plug-in for JUnit (www.junit.org).  Forte/NetBeans is a bit more
heavy-handed on the CASE support (it will spend more time building methods
for you), but Eclipse has all the core stuff you need, plus some nifty
refactoring capabilities: Martin Fowler has been calling it one of the two
best refactoring implementations in the open source community (see
http://www.refactoring.com).

Eclipse is multi-platform (written in Java), open source, and expandable.
They're finalizing a module for C/C++ support right now, and it wouldn't be
hard to add a plug-in for Objective C.  It's built from code donated by IBM
(from the WebSphere IDE project, I believe), so it's more polished than most
open-source offerings.  If you run into trouble setting it up for Swarm
(after completing the built-in tutorial), I can help.

http://www.eclipse.org

There are many other options: JEdit, Jext, TextPad, WinEdt, etc., all of
which integrate (to some degree) with java Swarm.  Many of them work better
in combination with Ant (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html).  I've
run JHeatbugs on every one just listed, and there are dozens more that
should work but that I haven't seen tested.  Most of these lighter-weight
packages have limited integrated debugging, however.

Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference: there's no substitute for
trying several and seeing which you like best.

Best,  --Chris

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Christopher J. Mackie
Princeton University
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Subject: Re: Jave IDE


I think Marcus Daniels and I use Emacs with the JDE for this.

I know for sure I have tested it with netbeans and it did work. I posted
the steps I had to take to get it to work about 5 months ago.

There are plenty of posts from people who use jbuilder. Last week it was
mentioned that people who use that should use a new version of jdk as
well as a beta version of Swarm, because there was a hangup between
Swarm-2.1.1 and jbuilder. For setup info, search the email list.

Concerning your debugger question, I do have some FAQ coverage on that:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/SwarmOnlineFaq.html#7.6

Marshall, James A R wrote:

> Hello,
>   after a long break I'm back at Swarm development... I used to use
> Objective-C for my Swarm work but have decided it's time to start using
> Java. So, I'm looking for a Java IDE that runs on Windows 2000 Pro. My
main
> criteria are:
> * minimal hassle to get running with Swarm
> * standard Windows interface
> * good integration of build and debug processes
>   Does anyone here have any recommendations, or is there a FAQ I can look
> at?
>   Thanks,
>       James
>
> ---
> James A R Marshall



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