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.'"

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java on the mac speeded up

[Joseph_Daniel_Zukige]

when the mac moved to the iNTEL platform, maybe?

Guess it shows that more people know how to optimize x86-32 than PPC.

Maybe that's a good indication that people have a harder time tracking registers in their heads as the number of available registers increases over 8?

(Thinking that optimization algorithms that are not understand by the people who write them are likely not to optimize as well as one might hope.)

joudanzuki, a preacher of parameter stacks separate from instruction pointer stacks

Re:Java n00b's question

[21mhz]

Netbeans uses the standard ant build files for its project files, Eclipse uses its own project format. It can use ant too.

Netbeans appears to be more supported by Sun than Eclipse is. No shit, Sherlock :)