Progamming Softwares for Java

[Jon855]

I'm going to be doing some programming in Java and I was wondering what programs out there are good and free geared towards programmer, no CLI please. Thanks.

 

[kamper]

eclipse and netbeans are the biggest free dev environments and both have very good reputations. If you're looking for something simpler I've heard good things about jEdit and JCreator.

 

[ttown]

eclipse

 

[notfred]

eclipse

 

[Thyme]

Ditto on Eclipse. It's amazing.

You might also want to look at BlueJ. It's a pretty awful IDE, but it is good for checking out small programs others have written without having to build an Eclipse project. It also shows relationships between classes, but I its features pretty much end there.

 

[akubi]

Originally posted by: ttown
eclipse

 

[beyonddc]

netbeans

 

[statik213]

my vote's forJBuilder: www.borland.com/jbuilder -- foundation edition is free for commerical use

 

[Rayden]

Eclipse... Come on, as you type syntax error checking? It is awesome.
BlueJ is for teaching people how objects work, nothing else.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: akubi

Originally posted by: ttown
eclipse

 

[scottish144]

JGRASP all the way!!! www.jgrasp.org Free, multi-platform IDE, great interface, and made by Computer Science/Software Engineering majors at Auburn University. Can create UML diagrams, API documentation, and JAR files. It also support Ada95, C, C++, Objective-C, and VHDL. Plus, it can ntegrate a CSD (Control Structure Diagram) into the code itself, and you can collapse/expand classes, methods, loops, if statements, try/catch statements, and anything else that requires {}.