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Eclipse Makes Java Development on the Mac Easier
An anonymous reader writes "While the Java development environment is fully integrated into Mac OS X, the Eclipse developer IDE brings a fully integrated Java development environment to Mac OS X that provides a more consistent and easier to develop cross-platform experience. This article shows you how quickly you can be up and running with Eclipse and Java development on the Mac. 'Whether you're a Mac OS X Java developer working on cross-platform Java projects, a Linux developer switching to Mac OS X because of its UNIX-based core, or a general Java developer looking to develop applications targeted to Mac OS X, you'll want to look at the Eclipse IDE because it provides a solution to each of these development needs. While Mac OS X provides Xcode as its primary Java development IDE, Eclipse provides a more robust cross-platform development environment, with application frameworks for reporting, database access, communications, graphics, and more, and a rich-client platform framework for building applications.'"
This is a confusing bit of junk.
First, lets talk about Java on the Mac when Apple stops sabotaging Java in general.
Java runs like total crap in OSX because Apple doesnt want it there in the first place.
They adopted a beta version of the JDK/JVM and its been total junk all along.
Secondly, well if Apple hadn't sabotaged Java on the Mac well maybe eclipse wouldn't suck so bad on that platform. But it does. In fact eclipse is stagnant on all existing platforms, and I wouldn't be surprised now that they have all but killed the paying tool market for Java, that the eclipse stagnation will resemble Java's overall stagnation as it moves into its rightful place as the more or less irrelevant cobol of OOP.
As an example of how lame eclipse is, it still doesnt have a SWING gui drag and drop canvas painter. Even Visual Age for Java had that.
So to the author I say, you know what screw you, screw apple, screw IBM and screw eclipse.
Because Im sick of people trying to lower my expectations by getting me excited by a
serial, fanatical, letdown.
And you are talking out of your ass.
xcode supports code refactoring or any other features of a modern IDE?
Slashdot is becoming a Mac fanboy (emphasize boy) site. Why does a cross platform development environment like Eclipse have to be tied to a FUCKING MAC PIECE OF SHIT?
Bleh. Java chews up my G5 processor like nobody's business. Not exactly thrilled that this is now even easier.
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