I've been using visual j++ for a few years now, but now I want to access some of the benefits in the jdbc 2.0 api that I can't get too. If I can't point visual j to sun's jdk, I may as well learn a new editor (my textpad editor is getting old. besides I like intellisense). What do you guys use? ------------------ I keep plugging away, but I just can't get a 3 way to work on realwife.com
I stick with emacs and javac. Everybody else here uses IBM Visual Age. They seem to be addicted to it. I have one big complaint about Visual Age: Instead of storing your .java files on the filesystem, Visual Age stores them all in its own binary repository. Really bugs me.
I guess one benefit to that is that it acts as a sourcecontrol per method. Are there other reasons why it does that? That would definitely be annoying... sounds pretty proprietary and counterproductive. I just downloaded forte community edition. It will take a while to get used to the solaris interface. It's going to take me a while to pick up all of the keyboard shortcuts, etc. in a new ide. But... ms has to be silly and live up to like jdk 1.1.1 ------------------ I keep plugging away, but I just can't get a 3 way to work on realwife.com
I had to ask one of the addicts to figure out the advantages to the repository. Really strong versioning - by the project, by the class, and by the method. Easy to revert all your class files to "release X", easy to revert to an earlier version of a particular method. The Visual Age intellisense (hate that word) rocks. Works better than any other I've used. People also seem to love the incremental compiling - eg you get instant auto-compiles when switching between different methods. Also seem to love easy navigation between projects, classes, methods. Of course, most of this stuff could be done w/o a binary repository, so I'm guessing IBM needed the efficiency boost provided by storing all the code in one binary lump. The repository is worthless to us for source control, though, since we've always got multiple programmers working with the same files, and so have to put all our code in a central Source Safe repository. You also lose ALL you code if ONE file (the repository) gets munged.
I use JPad Pro. ------------------ "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and STATISTICS..." - Mark Twain -
