Jave IDE similar to Visual Studio .NET

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Michael Jackson

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right NG to post this to.

I have to learn Java for a new contract. I'm looking for an IDE for Java, as
close to the .NET IDE, hopefully linked to SQL Server like .NET,
intellisense, debugging, etc.

Any recommendations? Prefer free or lengthy time trial if demo.

Thanks
Michael
 
I never try, but Eclipse is known as a good Java editor...

But you can try to use Visual J# to code, and the actual java compiler to
build result... but I never tried too...

Steve
 
Michael Jackson said:
Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right NG to post this to.

I have to learn Java for a new contract. I'm looking for an IDE for Java,
as close to the .NET IDE, hopefully linked to SQL Server like .NET,
intellisense, debugging, etc.

Any recommendations? Prefer free or lengthy time trial if demo.
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a good free one but without form builder is Eclipse :
http://www.eclipse.org/
Or if you want a solution that I think is the closest to VS I would go for
Borland JBuilder: www.Borland.com



Best Regards,

Jeroen Vandezande
 
Basically, both Eclipse and NetBeans are very good but they dont have GUI
form designers and they don't offer built in SQL Server connectivity. Also,
both are free downloads.

However, in Java I recommend that you use JDBC (or maybe some O/R mapper
like Hibernate) for database connectivity. Thay way you can target any RDBS
with no changes to the code.

Personally, I just switched from Eclipse to Visual Studio and after working
in Visual Studio for about 2 weeks I must say that I miss Eclipse ALOT. For
instance, in Eclipse when I want to rename a class I just press RENAME and
all references are updated. In my Visual Studio (its the .NET 2003 version)
there is no such functionality (I hear VS2005 has something like this
though). But really, once you learn the basics of Eclipse I'm sure you will
have many pleasant AHAs because there is alot of good stuff in Eclipse.


regards,
martin
 
martin said:
Basically, both Eclipse and NetBeans are very good but they dont have GUI
form designers and they don't offer built in SQL Server connectivity. Also,
both are free downloads.
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Actually, I *believe* that both of them now have GUI designers. I know
Eclipse does (as an add-in, IIRC). I haven't used it myself though - I
don't do much UI work, and I don't tend to like designers anyway.
Personally, I just switched from Eclipse to Visual Studio and after working
in Visual Studio for about 2 weeks I must say that I miss Eclipse ALOT. For
instance, in Eclipse when I want to rename a class I just press RENAME and
all references are updated. In my Visual Studio (its the .NET 2003 version)
there is no such functionality (I hear VS2005 has something like this
though). But really, once you learn the basics of Eclipse I'm sure you will
have many pleasant AHAs because there is alot of good stuff in Eclipse.
Click to expand...

Agreed. You may be interested in this blog post I wrote:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon.skeet/archive/2005/12/22/79631.aspx
 
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