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IBM releases VisualAge for Java for Linux 3.0

Posted by Hemos on from the coming-to-linux-first dept.

Quite a number of you have written in with the word that IBM has released Visual Age for Linux v3.0. As well, a number of you noted that v3.0 came out for Linux before certain other OSes *grin*. As for obtaining it, you can't get it for free but you can come pretty darn close - get on VADD for $50 to get VAJ for Linux. Happy Coding.

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  1. Re:Is this package any good? by hey! · · Score: 3

    Pretty darn good, if you ask me.

    I've never tried Symantec's offerings, but VisualAge for Java is head and shoulders better than Sybase's PowerJ.

    By rights this ought to be a VB and PowerBuilder killer. Both VB an PB have very cluttered IDE's and languages, whereas the Visual Age IDE is smaller and more logical. Java is also truly object oriented as opposed to VB, and it takes care of garbage collection which has to be done manually by PB.

    The only reason I'm not more excited by this is that I'm getting really sick of relying on tools vendors for support and upgrades. If there's a bug that affects you, you end up twisting slowly, slowly in the wind while some PHB decides on new "features" to put into the product. If IBM open sourced this, I'd be in heaven.



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  2. disagreement is good by The+G · · Score: 3

    One poster likes VisualAge, another thinks it sucks.

    One poster likes Visual Cafe, another thinks it sucks.

    Some folks think emacs is a great IDE, some think these folks are on GnuCrack.

    The point is, the more IDEs we have for Linux, the more of these people can work on Linux, and the better off Linux is.

    Diversity of uses and users is Linux's strengh; diversity of apps is what we need to get even stronger. Even if you think that newest FooBar Visual Widget Toolkit +- sucks, it's making Linux that much more appealing to people who don't think that it sucks, and we all get a bit stronger.

    Freedom of choice. It's that good thing, remember?
    --G

  3. Great news, but... by snoopdave · · Score: 3

    I am an IDE type of guy. I love class browsers, integrated debuggers and GUI designers. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a Java IDE that works well enough to replace my favorite editor (CodeWright or vi) and command line tools (make, javac and jdb) for daily use.

    Why is this? I have tried most of the major Java IDEs out there including JBuilder, Visual Age, Visual Cafe, Netbeans and even Visual J++. Most of the IDEs have some nice features but all of them are bloated memory hogs. Maybe faster CPUs and cheaper memory will make them usable someday.

    That said, I think it is great that IBM is supporting Java on Linux. To support the Visual Age and Websphere products, IBM is providing their fast and stable Java VM free-of-charge under Linux. Can't complain about that!

  4. Emacs by DanaL · · Score: 3

    I kind of like VisualAge, though. Features like compilation-as-you-go, the respository and auto-versioning are kind of nice. Maintaining different versions has saved my life on projects in the past.

    I imagine you could probably makes Emacs do that, but having to learn elisp to add functionality to my java development environment just seems wrong somehow :)

    Dana