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what i sometimes look for an editor/ide is if it *doesn't* have the features i *don't* want. i really don't want an integrated java debugger, or code browser, or other things i consider bloat.

that's what i liked about EditPlus, it was configurable, bare-bones, and cheap.

i moved to jEdit earlier this year. it's highly configurable, the plugins are a brilliant concept (just get the components i want!) and something that most don't point out is: there's actually a major advantage to this editor being written in Java....

...and that advantage is BeanShell. beanshell is basically a java interpreter written in... java. it may sound silly at first, but this means you can script jEdit components at runtime without compiling. manipulate text, communicate with plugins, write your do-it-all ultimate macro, or just execute that java math expression you want to test out. it's also a great "scratchpad" for trying out code snippets to see if you get the results you expect, without having to create a class/static main method, compile, etc. just type in a few lines of code and go.

check out the jedit plugins here (i wish there was a cvs plugin! anyone care to do a port?)

see the jedit community page (experimental plugins, lots of beanshell macros, etc) here

what i sometimes look for an editor/ide is if it *doesn't* have the features i *don't* want. i really don't want an integrated java debugger, or code browser, or other things i consider bloat.

that's what i liked about EditPlus, it was configurable, bare-bones, and cheap.

i moved to jEdit earlier this year. it's highly configurable, the plugins are a brilliant concept (just get the components i want!) and something that most don't point out is: there's actually a major advantage to this editor being written in Java....

...and that advantage is BeanShell. beanshell is basically a java interpreter written in... java. it may sound silly at first, but this means you can script jEdit components at runtime without compiling. manipulate text, communicate with plugins, write your do-it-all ultimate macro, or just execute that java math expression you want to test out. it's also a great "scratchpad" for trying out code snippets to see if you get the results you expect, without having to create a class/static main method, compile, etc. just type in a few lines of code and go.

check out the jedit plugins here (i wish there was a cvs plugin! anyone care to do a port?)

see the jedit community page (experimental plugins, lots of beanshell macros, etc) here

By downloading jEdit and plugins that will do project exploration, Java compilation, Java output console, CVS access, and error messages that allow you to jump to the offensive line of code -- all within their own dockable windows, you've got yourself a good and free IDE, mister!

• Vim - Really, it's what I use.
• JEdit - Pure-Java, super pluggable IDE.
• NetBeans - The origninal pure-java IDE.
• Forte - Never used it... lots of people like it.
• JBuilder - Seems like a descent ide.

Like I said, though, I really *do* use vim, mc and ant. And that's it. jode if you need to do some decompiling, and everything is great under Linux.

It's been called "The Bronze Age IDE" by my colleagues, but it's fast and stable. Run a couple windows in each virtual desktop and you can edit 20 files at once easily. Vim has everything I want in an editor -- color syntax hilighting, auto-indenting, quickie macros, horizontal and vertical split, block copy and indent, etc. And ten million other little features.

No matter what IDE you use, ant is by far the best Java-based build system. Everyone should be using it.

-nate

The author of Jext abandoned development at the start of this year, and the current version has many bugs. I suggest you use j or Jedit instead.

You should have a look at jedit it is not a complete IDE but rather a very powerful text editor with _tons_ of plugins (anything from a java class browser to a full featured irc client). And it's open source also.

use jEdit.

Written in Java. Its not an IDE, but its an excellent editor.

I've also used Codewarrior for Java, and have been pleasantly surprised. It's a top-notch environment. Metrowerks has done some fine work.

Forte/NetBeans has a way to go. What a pig. 3.0 has some nice speed and stability increases...

If you don't need a really fancy setup, try jEdit. It's an open source text editor with syntax coloring(60 file types!), and the plug-ins avaliable give you plenty of project management features.

And a dark horse: IntelliJ. I really like it. Lots of "enterprise" features bundled in a relatively cheap package.

I was just wondering. I installed jEdit recently (after not using it for a while) under Linux-Mandrake, and if I choose anti-aliasing in there (within the program itself), it's gorgeous - comparable if not better than I've seen in Windows, really eye-pleasing. The question is how do they do it, and is there a way to take it from there and put into X or KDE or whereever appropriate?

We've been using jEdit at work for about a year now, and we really like it quite a bit. It's java based, so it can be a tad slow on an under powered box. Many, many languges supported, and a boat-load of plugins.

It's kind of nice to have one IDE for C,Java, and PHP.

I can be found at http://www.jedit.org/