[lug] What Development Environments, Debuggers, also Documentation

[Greg Seker]

> 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