Re: What is the best java development and vm ?
As far as the JDK / JRE goes I would stick with the Sun VMs for now. They are
fairly easy to install on Debian (Google for debian java).
There are plenty of development environments for Java but the two most widely
used are eclipse and netbeans. I use netbeans but I am considering switching
to eclipse because the netbeans has had various annoying bugs for a while
now.
Hope that helps,
Graham
On Thursday 16 February 2006 00:54, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Please, no flame wars!
>
> I understand that what is best for one person may not be for another.
>
> I think that it is time to learn to code in java. Where do I start?
>
> I have verified that I do not have javac on my box. In trying to find
> what package provides javac I came across free-java-sdk. This sounds
> like it will provide a java compiler, vm, and a bunch of tooks. I am
> not clear on whether it provides an IDE, or not.
>
> Checking apt-cache show implies that I can change my JAVA_HOME
> environment variable, which makes it sound like this will completely
> replace j2re1.4.2. Is this correct? Is it a good idea? will this
> affect running java apps in mozilla-suite, firefox, or opera?
>
> I also ran across eclipse, although this does not appear to be packaged
> for Debian. From what I see at eclipse.org, this would use my existing
> j2re1.4.2 and WOULD provide an IDE.
>
> Is there someplace else that I should be looking? Links to info, or
> previous posts covering this would be OK.
>
> --
> Marc Shapiro
> mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
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