Talk:The best environment for programming in Java

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Aptana VS Eclipse J2EE

Why use Aptana when Eclipse J2EE or Eclipse php have the javascript extension already installed?

--66.178.108.182 12:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Netbeans ?

How on earth could you leave this off the list?

--Elhombre 09:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Write about Netbeans

I don't use Netbeans and I am satisfied with Eclipse.

If you feel you can write about it. A little tutorial about how to start with Netbeans would be perfect.

--DonGiulio 11:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

IntelliJ's IDEA

There's no mention of IntelliJ's IDEA here.

It's the most intelligent IDE out there today. Even if there weren't a free version, I find it well worth the money. For one thing, if you do a re-factor in IDEA, it finds ALL the references EVERYWHERE and fixes them. For another, it is based on maven but has a plugin for ant as opposed to the other way around.

I think it's terrible that software development organizations will spend USD $500 on MS Word but won't spend a dime on development IDE's. Same thing with hardware. Nevermind that a decent machine can make an +$80k developer several times more efficient and only costs ~$1,000.

Huff, huff, huff.... OK sorry about the rant. I'm enhancing my calm... huff huff.. enhancing... ;-) OK.

I just got off a contract where they had a 6000+ file build that ran for a whole freakin hour. They insisted we do it on ancient core 2 duo's. Despite having used maven as the build tech, they wrote it as a singular monolithic build because they were using an off-the-wall VCS and had it all in one tree. Guess they couldn't figure out how to fix it. While I was there, one developer lost 2 weeks of work TWICE because of the wacky VCS they choose and were paying good money for. No central maven repo, no project decomp...

I'm an IntelliJ IDEA user, as you may have guessed but they had things set up so that only Eclipse could be used... *IF* you could get it to work with that many files over a slow file share and using a badly screwed up maven config. ...of course, what they told me when I hired on was that it would be just fine if I used IDEA... ;-) I note that all of the other dev's working at this place were held prisoner by their Visa status except me and one other guy. Both of us were soon gone.

OK, stick a fork in me. I'm done.

Point: IntelliJ IDEA is really good and worth mention here.

Jcllings 22:04, 30 December 2011 (UTC)