[lug] What Development Environments, Debuggers, also Documentation

[Zulaware]

FYI: I started using NetBeans but switched to Eclipse because NetBeans 
will most likely be phased out, though this is not at all certain. 
Eclipse has broken from IBM (which originated it, even naming it 
"Eclipse" as a description of what it would do to NetBeans) and Sun 
(NetBeans originator) is supposedly endorsing Eclipse now, presumably 
because they have enough to worry about and Eclipse is getting more and 
more popular. Of course, this is the subject of many heated debates and 
conflicting information, and of course, NetBeans will probably never 
disappear. Both are excellent ad both have huge developer support and 
tons of add-ons, docs, etc. So my advice, if you were to take the big 
IDE route would be to try 'em both and see which one moves you.

My $0.02

--M

Greg Seker wrote:

>>I'm going to be doing development with Java, PHP, html, a bit of
>>    
>>
>javascript and POSTgres as database.  I'll be mostly on a Windows PC.
>
>www.netbeans.com - FREE and open source IDE. Develop cross-platform desktop,
>mobile and web applications
>based on industry standards utilizing the latest technologies with
>full-featured integrated development
>environment for Java Software Developers.
>
>I've used it on Windoze XP, for creating Java GUIs, its great .. supports
>drap&drop of objects to
>for quick GUI layout (visual edit using form editor) ... setup nicely for
>Windows desktop use (provides
>the services common to desktop applications, such as window and menu
>management, settings storage, and so forth.)
>Also supports AWT, SWING, Tomcat (servlet/JSP), FTP, database (using JDBC),
>auto updates, and a bunch more ...
>
>Summary of features: http://www.netbeans.org/products/platform/features.html
>(screen shots, tour, etc also available above)
>
>Debug by attaching a 2nd NetBean instance .... I haven't tried it, but heard
>good things...
>Debugging with Netbeans:
>http://debuggercore.netbeans.org/docs/HOWTOs/How-to-debug-NetBeans.html\
>
>Here's an example of online support:
>http://www.netbeans.org/kb/using-netbeans/36/index.html
>
>Amazing amount of templates for quick startup.
>
>well worth a look,
>Zeke
>
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