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Industry Leaders Discuss Java Status Quo
prostoalex writes "JavaPro magazine published a wrap-up report on Java discussions at the recent JavaOne. If you missed JavaOne, the video Webcasts of McNealy, Schwartz, Gosling et al. are available from this site. The round table mentioned above gathered people from Sun, Oracle, Borland, Novell, Motorola and others. The discussion topics included: Java vs. NET, integration issues, the impact of open source and top problems that Java is facing today."
It was a java app that really swung me over. I needed a GUI based telnet app that would allow a user to click on buttons that would send control characters to the host. (I work in a call center). I needed it to run on linux and I wanted something open source that I could modify. So I headed over to sourceforge and ended up with something that is working very well.
You can find it here
It can be run as an applet or application. (Something else I like is how easily you can move java to web stuff and vice versa) I run it as an application. It works well. And it didn't do everything just the way I wanted- so now I am fixing it to do just what I need. (that's an open source thing more than a java thing- but I love it) My IDE- Eclipse, is also a Java app that works well, on both platforms by the way. It does not seem slow or buggy to me.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I've used Visual Studio, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA
Eclipse www.eclipse.org is excellent and is backed by the industrial strength of IBM. It's open source and it's completely free.
IntelliJ IDEA www.intellij.com is also excellent, but it's not free.
Never tried Borland Jbuilder.
In my opinion as far as IDE's go Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and eclipse are on the same level.
You could always use SWT instead of Swing - it looks like it belongs on Windows (or it blends in with GTK, if you're under Linux).