BEST Java IDE/RAD tool

What is the best Java IDE for the price? I don't currently do a lot with Enterprise Java Beans and such ... but 1 thing I really need is to speed up GUI development for Java apps.
Any ideas?

Free:
netbeans.org
eclipse.org (my current favorite)
Both have a ton of features, including CVS integration.

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what is the best Java IDE for linux system

I use on three different projects three different IDEs: JBuilder, Eclipse and IntelliJ. I personally prefer IntelliJ, although Eclipse and JBuilder are very good products as well. If you need absolute stability, Eclipse is maybe a little bit early in development, on the other hand it is free and open source. Additionally it "feels" a little bit faster on Linux, because it does not use Swing but SWT which utilizes native controls.
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Java IDE Internationization Tools

Is there any Java IDE(s) out there that have built in tools to support internationalization?

I'm using 2.0.1. It's not a plugin - look at \Source\Externalize Strings... menu.
Regarding Websphere - I can only imagine that it works as well or better than base Eclipse - but I'm not using WS right now, so you'll want to check for yourself.
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Best Java IDE ? lets rank em

Folks,
I was jst wonderin wats the most popular Java IDE being used
"out there" in your corner of the world ?
If there are any patient souls, I would appreciate your personal
ranking on them ? Tried asking god (read google), but found most
pages a bit biased.
We'll come out with a verdict in the end.
And there is a surprise gift for the best 10 posts.. yeah right ?? :-)

Why people lose time writing for a question that they
don't want to answer. I think all of them are
stupids.Nice hearing from the most intelligent of the lot! If you'd had a grain of grey matter in your brain, you'd not have wasted time in resurrecting useless old threads.
Well, I use Eclipse IDE and IBM WSAD.Eclipse is fine. WSAD sucks; in general, WebSphere sucks!!!
Eclipse is very nice and is faster than WSAD, but
WSAD have some interesting features.Who cares?
x

Looking for the BEST java IDE

Hi
We're evaluating java IDE's (especially JBuilder & VisualAge) for a Client-Server project that uses RMI (there is no Web development\HTML\Bens involved)
I would appreciate any recommendations, suggestions, articles or reviews that you have.
thanks in Advance...

Both of these IDEs are very solid pieces of software each with their own advantages.
JBuilder is similar to most other java IDEs. It takes less time to become productive in JBuilder than it will take in Visual Age because Visual Age takes a non-standard approach to java development. Be sure to look at a recent version of JBuilder because early version support for remote debugging was very poor.
Visual Age has some of the most advanced java development features of any IDE I've ever used. The downside of this functionality is that it takes quite a bit of time to get accustomed to the IDE. Visual Age doesn't use files like most other IDEs opting instead to provide a completely separate archiving mechanism called a Repository.
If you're looking for something that will take very little time to learn, JBuilder is the better choice. It doesn't have as many features as Visual Age but it's also a lot more like most IDEs and has just about everything most java projects will need.
If you're team is composed primarily of Sr. developers and you're willing to take the time to learn the IDE, Visual Age is well worth the investment. It's a pain to learn but once you learn it you won't want to go back to file based development.
Of course, if you're looking for something between these 2 in terms of features and complexity, download the community edition of forte and give it a whirl.

Best Java IDE

Is there any site which ranks the Java IDE's available in the market?

Ctrl-Space dot completion in codeJBuilder, Eclipse, JCreator all have this. It's becoming a neccesary feature to even be considered.
ANT integration, for those of you who want itEclipse, JBuilder, probably JCreator.
Makes suggestions as you write your code. Ex: if I
create a new class and make use of a Vector, a little
blue popup appears (that doesn't steal focus) that
tells me to press Alt+Enter if I want it to insert the
appropriate import at the top of the file.I like Eclipse's way of doing it. You code and then say organize imports and viola, they are all there. And it doesn't use * it brings in each class separately and asks if there are mulitple classes with the same name.
Then, with my cursor at the end of "itco", I press
tab. With one keystroke, the code becomesThis is the same as JBuilder but you use ctrl-J. You can add your own templates also. I assume you can do that in IntelliJ has the same ability. I'm pretty sure Eclipse does too but I haven't bothered to figure out how.

What's your favorite Java IDE/RAD ???

I'd like to hear your opinions because I am getting fed up with the one I'm using... I use Visual Cafe v4 and it crashes at least 10 times a day. Not only that but theres bugs with the interaction of different internal windows and the transition between debug/edit modes. I haven't used any of the other corporate IDEs- can someone recommend one for me ?
thanks!

I have tried a couple of IDE's now, but the best one,
in my opinion, is JBuilder 4 by Borland/Inprise.
You can download a free copy of JBuilder 4 Foundation
from Inprise and try it out.
Kind regs,
HjembaekI agree totally.
I use JBuilder 4 Professional in my job, but without the extensions for e.g. db access, and at home JBuilder 4 Foundation.
If you want to join the free downloadable JBuilder 4 Foundation, hurry up, for they are just releasing JBuilder 5, and this has a basic version for about 100$.
Regards,
Hartmut

Best Java/JSP IDE

I am really new to Java and would like opinions on the best "FREE" IDE to use.
Please let me know what your favorite IDE is and why. Note that my only constraint is that it is a FREE IDE because my organization will not let me spend money on an IDE.
Thanks.
James

I've been using IntelliJ Idea for quite some time - and by far this is the best IDE i've used. It's not free however.
About free ones: I've been using JCreator for a while. It has nice features that simplify coding: (taken from the website)
Pop-up code completion.
Pop-up code snippets.
Pop-up code identifier.
Source code navigation.
Integration of the Javadocs.
Debugger Interface.
Custom document types.
Class Wizard.
Interface Implementation tool.
And more.. "
You can also use Sun's own SunONE studio. It's pretty good, although I found it slow.
HTH
M

Why do we need IDE or tools for java card programming?

Hi,
I am a newbie to java card, using java card kit tools themself, we can test and burn the code into card right?
then why do we need IDE for java card, please correct me , if i am wrong,
Thanks in advance,
Sri.

Dear Sri,
We have compiler, linker etc for every language starting of from C or C++ or Java. JDK has all the tools necessary to develop and run a Java program. Similarly Java Card Development Kit has all the tools for developing and deploying a Java Card applet. But what an IDE does is too integrate all these tools and make it easier for the JavaCard programmer to develop his applets. Just like Eclipse is used for Java applet development.And not everytime the code is burned to the card. Its only during masking code is burned to the card, i.e if u can call it burning. Masking makes an applet permanent on the card.

Java ME SDK Tools 3.0.5 Integration NetBeans IDE 6.9.1

I've installed the NetBeans IDE v 6.9.1 and Java ME SDK Tools v 3.0.5 on a Vista (build 6001) SP1 machine and everything worked just fine. I had a system failure, and had to (attempt) uninstall / re-install. After a clean install of the OS (Vista Home Premium), the JavaME SDK folder was left over & I manually deleted it, re-installed the Java ME SDK Tools.
My first issue was trying to get them to integrate into the Guest account. No luck. Then a standard user. No luck. And finally as an administor. No luck again.
So basically, there seems to be some stranded registry entry (which I have tried to clean after uninstalls) that signals NetBeans 6.9.1 that the Java ME SDK (3.0.5) is installed (even when I have removed it and deleted to folder). At which point the NetBeans IDE asks continually if I would like to integrate the Java ME SDK Tools. Either way, the tools will no longer integrate.

Ok. So I finally got it working. I had to uninstall the Java ME SDK Tools, and NetBeans (again). This time, i received no errors. Then I deleted all of the related dot folders (.nbi, .netbeans, .netbeans-registration) & "javame-sdk" from every user folder.
For some reason it seems that NetBeans IDE 6.9.1 or Java ME SDK 3.0.5 was still trying to use the old administrator account folder (from the previous, wiped-out Windows installation). I was wondering why the old account re-appeared in the User folder!
So if your having the same problem: Uninstall NetBeans & Java ME SDK Tools, delete all related folders, run a registry cleaner like CCleaner, reboot, re-install.
** If you get errors during either uninstall operation, then you will have to re-install & uninstall again! ** <- Basically, do the above steps twice =)

What java IDE is the best one?

What java IDE is best ?
What java IDE are you using?

I agree that you should decide on what you want your IDE to do.
How important is a GUI builder?
Do you need support for, say Java Server Faces?
Do you frequently work with XML files?
etc, etc.
That being sad: IntelliJ Idea ist the best in many areas, the most important one being usability. This sounds like a small deal, but as each and every feature is very-well implemented, it really boosts productivity.
Currently it falls short in some areas, like support for Java Server Faces.
"dingfelder": Where did you get these numbers from? Last I know, Idea was the third most used IDE.
Also "quantity of users" is as good a criteria as the checksum of it's installer file.
There's a saying in german that literally translates too "Eat sh*t - milliions of flies can't err." Sorry for the french, but you get the Idea I hope.
Oh no, I can't believe that I posted on yet another "what IDE is best" thread. And even more so in a forum that should deal with other stuff.
David001, I hope you're not simply a troll.

Simple Object Modelling and Java IDE for OSX?

I haven't been technical for a while and I want to refresh my Java and object modelling skills. I'm looking for two things. If I can find both in the same environment so much the better.
1) A basic UML modelling tool. All I really care about is describing a medium size object model: classes, sub-classes, attributes, relations, etc.
2) A basic Java IDE. Don't need EJB or anything complex. Just want to compile run and debug simple Java programs.
I down loaded Net Objects but it seems like overkill for what I want. I looked on some open source sites but almost nothing was native to OSX it all ran under Windows or required a Java virtual machine. Actually I guess that's another question, is there already a Java virtual machine as part of OSX or do I need to download one and if so which would be the best.
I'm willing to spend a few $$ but free stuff would be better and no more than $50. So far I found one product native to OSX but the starting cost was $400+ for a five person license.

In case anyone has the same question, I just found this very nice tool on the Apple web site called Visual Paradigm for UML:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/visualparadigmforumlente rpriseedition.html
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Java ide productivity gain

Hello -
I'm building a business case for a client regarding Return on Investment (ROI) of Java IDE (not necessarily JDevelopler). The client has 2 different non-IDE environments (one with microsoft products, the other with CORBA). The million dollar question is what productivity gain will they see by moving to a common Java IDE? Thank you.

Depends upon your staff, their training and understanding; your specific deployment method, your established infrastructure that you must stay within. sigh Productivity gain is relative to starting point, so your question can not be simply responded to without some way of knowing and measuring your current "productivity" and determining a method of projecting, via a metric, the target "productivity" produced by the use of the IDE.
What is your deployment target? Do you need to debug server side java?
Another example, if you use BC4J, and currently have no framework for dealing with databases in your Java... you may achieve great "productivity" by not writing your own custom layer. And then there is the "immediate" gain vs the gain over the long haul. ( maintaining/enhancing your proprietary custom layer, dealing with new situations that you didn't know about when you started, etc ).
Do you have well designed/built templates as a starting place... or will JDEV's wizards help generate code for you and remove a lot of muck work?
FWIW, I've seen folk use notepad and W95 to create complex Java apps/websites ( or for that matter C++ apps ) faster than fancy development IDEs for spot, narrowly focused and discrete tasks and projects. Those folk also knew how to use the web to find re-usable components quickly. Not that the resulting apps were all necessarily MAINTAINABLE.
I'm glad to discern that you are not looking at JDev as a "RAD" tool, or mistake it for a 4GL.
But when looking at JDEV as an Enterprise level database applications toolset for building Java/Web applications for the long haul... well... I picked it. grin
You might look at the JDEV 9i white paper. See closer integration for Repository, PL/SQL, UML modeling/Designer... etc.
Lastly, I think any IDE you get will NOT be a productivity gain until your staff has training in how to use it, has some time to learn the quirks and workarounds, determines how to set up infrastructure/standards... the first project will probably be a bear.. but AFTER the first project, if you persevered, kept the staff, and use the same approach and look/feel ( application/applet/jsp/servelet/ad nauseam ) then you should see fairly good productivity gain. What's fairly good? ( What's quality? I know it when I see it. )
Heheh. Good Luck.

Web application with RAD tool inside for dynamic JSP building

I would realize a J2EE Web application based on JSP,Struts and eventually Spring for transaction management and iBatis for data access in my opinion very complex.
The application presents search, list and detail pages, and the information visibility depends on the user.
Each edit page could be based on a single page or many tabs, and a tab could contain entity's information or information associated to the entity subject of the page, displayed as list. The informations in editing phase will be controlled by javascript rules.
A web application administrator will set the information's grants (hidden, readonly, read and write) for each entity managed inside the application.
Now there is the complication: each page (search, list, detail) must be built by the web application administrator with a configurator/builder directy inside the same web application on the server!
For example, for a detail page:
1) each tab must be defined and named: so I can't develop a static number of tabs, in which I managed a fixed set of data inside each of these tabs. I must develop a page with all the entity's fields and all the rules, and then the web application administrator set which informations must be available for each tab from the same page detail developed. The tabs in which there's a list could be displayed or not, and the data in the list follow the grants setted by the web application administrator.
2) the web application administrator can specify all the data inside a tab: every tab will be built indicating which fields show or edit if the user has the grants. For example for entity1, we could define a detail page for user1 with field1, field3 and field2, while for user2 we could define the detail page with tab1 within field2, and a second tab, tab2 within field3.
3) the web application administrator can specify the layout inside the tab, indicating the pixel position inside the tab, or the application could provide a visual tool, in HTML, in which there is a design area, and in which the web application administrator clicks in a point and positions in it an information, and even specify the style's properties (color, font, background,...)
4) the application must provide to the users the possibility to define new fields for an entity, and must manage them adding in whichever tab for that entity. For such informations will be possible only management without controls except the controls of type (data, int, money, ...)
In my opinion point 3 I think it's part of a report tool and not of detail visualization; moreover all the styles of a page must be personalized, not only the informations contained inside the tabs. I think the only solution in a highly configurabile application is to show the search/detail fields 1 for row, and not with a positioning based on pixel coordinates or positioning with a RAD tool.
I ask to you:
- have you ever seen or realized web application that they supply application design tools within the same application, realized in HTML+Javascript?
- is realizable this kind of application?
- ...any suggestion to supply for proceeding?
Honestly my ideas are to realize points 1 and 2; I suppose point 3 is not feasible and that the result of the styles customization is little appropriated; for point 4 I suppose to simplify the management of new data by managing all the new ones inside the same tab, or I will have to think another possible solution...
Thanks to everyone has interesting ideas or suggestions to give.

have you ever seen or realized web application that they supply >application design tools within the same application, realized in >HTML+Javascript? Yes, Oracle HTML DB is one such purchasable off the shelf :)
is realizable this kind of application? I would think so - yes. It requiresa good team - 4 or 5 developers with excellent jsp/servlet knowledge :)
- ...any suggestion to supply for proceeding? Such kind of functionality is achievable only in 1 way-DB, always. You would store the information for each entity and the permissions for each attribute of that entity per user in the db. You can consider having roles (teams), assign permissions to the roles and then add users to the roles so that they inherit the permissions. You should be able to ovderride the permissions per individual user too.
I would say you first plan this out in a piece of paper, convert it into relationships in the db. Implementing the jsp solution is by far the easist (& tedious :)), IMO
ram.

Java IDE Security Issues

I'm evaluating Java IDE's. My boss wants me to evaluate IDE security issues. I can't think of any issues, or how an IDE can have anything to do with security, but didn't want to sweep it under the rug without asking all of you security experts.
Are there any security concerns when selecting a Java IDE?

Yeah, you confirmed what I already knew I suppose.
Unfortunately, I know nothing if this organization, as
I'm only consulting. The management here INSISTS that
security be addressed, but I think it's out of scope
for Java IDE selection. Thanks!In that context, things like "supports HTTPS and ssh access for remote development" may be exactly what they're looking for. It lets managers say "Yes we considered security in making this purchase, and yes the developers of this tool take security seriously." Doesn't mean that security is ever going to impact the actual use of the product.
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