Vitaliy Ischenko wrote:
Yeah, I was pretty leary of going with anything other than Sun, so I upgraded to the new jdk 5.0 and then installed netbeans.The "best" SDK is SUN sdk read this http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Java and especially last part Installing eclipse is extremely easy -- just unpack archive with binaries somewhere and launch it :)
Netbeans runs extremely slow, however. It says that it needs 384 MB of memory and I only have 256 MB (with 512 MB swap) so I am guessing that is the reason for the slow running. Is eclipse any better at running with less memory? Money is tight, and, although adding memory is by far the cheapest way to improve performance, I would rather not do that at this time if it can be avoided. Since I have no java experience I really do want visual style IDE so that I only have to worry about learning java and not have to deal with the visual interface at the same time.
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