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Java Development Environments for Macintosh?

Posted by Cliff on from the coffee-and-apples dept.

spacecowboy420 asks: "My company (with my persuasion) has decided to move from a Windows platform to a Macintosh. The issue that is slowing this move is one of software solutions - more specifically a Jave IDE and Sales Contact Management software. We have been using JBuilder and Act!. Jbuilder is available for mac but is pricey, but the real rub is we need an IDE that supports the JClass Libraries (which Jbuilder does, but we would like to consider an alternative). Act! also doesn't have a mac version, so I am in new territory when it comes to mac contact solutions. What solutions have the Slashdot community found to be the best? What are the thoughts on Power Builder (although I know it doesn't support the JClass Libraries)?."

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  1. IDE's are for wimps by bwt · · Score: 1, Troll

    IDE's are for wimps: Use JEdit -- it's a free text editor with some very powerful plugins for java.