java wont show up!

[Gibson486]

Argggg, I just installed Java SKD. My quetsion is, how do you actually start it? There is no exe for a compiler. What am supposed to use?

 

[notfred]

javac

 

[Gibson486]

i know, but how do you open it?

 

[notfred]

start > run > cmd

c:\>javac filename.java

 

[MrChad]

Are you looking for an IDE like Visual Studio? That's not included with the Sun JDK. Eclipse is a nice freeware Java IDE.

 

[Gibson486]

somthing like visual c++, where you just put code in and just tell it to compile. The way it looks however is that Java wants you to do everything code, ie no GUI program used to compile, just notepad?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
somthing like visual c++, where you just put code in and just tell it to compile. The way it looks however is that Java wants you to do everything code, ie no GUI program used to compile, just notepad?

Sure, you can use notepad, if you're a masochist...

I would recommend using makefiles for all of your projects, it can be much more convenient to just "make" and "make clean", etc, and let your makefile take care of any details. But I don't know how that goes on windows.

 

[funks]

What are you trying to do? build programs or something?

If so, Eclipse like what the guy states is a pretty good and pretty responsive IDE..

If you want to compile and package stuff out of an IDE, (It's like a Makefiles for Java) - package up the app, setup manifest FILES, use Apache's ANT.

Ant Build scripts also work from within Eclipse.. If you need some sort of Source Code repository, setup a linux box, install CVS and use it as the repository (eclipse supports CVS natively).