[buug] Single male programmer ISO decent Java IDE
johnd
john at jjdev.com
Fri Jun 7 10:24:06 PDT 2002
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:11:20AM -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote:
>
> hi
>
> I'm sure everyone has their religious preferences here, but since many of us write code, I'm seeking some ideas for finding a decent IDE. I know, I know, they all suck. Fine. But the one I'm supposed to use for work (Websphere) sucks extroidinarily hard.
>
> The primary goal for this tool is to write Java code. Anything else is gravy. I would like the following features:
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> - ability to tell me which class/method I'm in (must have)
> - color-coding: highlights keywords (must have)
> - brace/paren matching: shows me visually which braces are matching
> - decent search functionality (must have)
> - auto indent (must have)
> - code-folding: expand/collapse blocks (nice to have)
I've found a great IDE...it's called Linux : ). vi can do all that stuff (vim)
make sure you get a copy of IBM's javac (its is way faster than Sun's)
Good luck integrating external tools with Websphere. Last time I used it, it
kept all the files in some DB repository.
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