In my office, hanging out with the co-workers is both enjoyable and desired. But at first, it felt almost like the bosses demanded we go out. I started when the company was made of a whole 7 people, and since then has grown to over 30. It's been a fun ride, and thanks to that "required" feel many of us have become long-term friends out of it. I've had sleep-overs, jam sessions, trips to water parks and a host of other things together either on our own, or in a "full office" method. It's created a very close workplace, we all like each other, and everyone kinda watches out for each other. It's a well rounded group, imho.
Since IDEs are very subjective to a person's preference, it's hard to pick "the best" solution for a group of people.
My personal preference is HomeSite/ColdFusion Studio from Allaire. Neither of them have much in the way of java support, but they're extensible to the Nth degree. I wrote a little java/javac/appletviewer wrapper app and bound it to my F-keys to perform my basic compile/debugging. If you want to check it out, it's at my html site. If not, no biggie. It's pretty simple, but works for me.
I've tried IDEA, JCreator, NetBeans, Forte, and a ton of others, but i'm so hard-wired into the Allaire environment, and i don't do enough java to make much use of the big tools, so i stuck with what i'm used to.
All the above are great apps, very well done. I don't like how slow the java-based ones are from a UI standpoint (i.e. Forte and it's Swing backing, i had to get out and push)
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In my office, hanging out with the co-workers is both enjoyable and desired. But at first, it felt almost like the bosses demanded we go out. I started when the company was made of a whole 7 people, and since then has grown to over 30. It's been a fun ride, and thanks to that "required" feel many of us have become long-term friends out of it. I've had sleep-overs, jam sessions, trips to water parks and a host of other things together either on our own, or in a "full office" method. It's created a very close workplace, we all like each other, and everyone kinda watches out for each other. It's a well rounded group, imho.
Since IDEs are very subjective to a person's preference, it's hard to pick "the best" solution for a group of people. My personal preference is HomeSite/ColdFusion Studio from Allaire. Neither of them have much in the way of java support, but they're extensible to the Nth degree. I wrote a little java/javac/appletviewer wrapper app and bound it to my F-keys to perform my basic compile/debugging. If you want to check it out, it's at my html site. If not, no biggie. It's pretty simple, but works for me. I've tried IDEA, JCreator, NetBeans, Forte, and a ton of others, but i'm so hard-wired into the Allaire environment, and i don't do enough java to make much use of the big tools, so i stuck with what i'm used to. All the above are great apps, very well done. I don't like how slow the java-based ones are from a UI standpoint (i.e. Forte and it's Swing backing, i had to get out and push)
.....WPA? Spoooky