Java development on Ubuntu

[Glenn Holmer]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 08:50 -0700, John Ughrin wrote:
> I'm thinking about developing some Java stuff. What's
> the preferred IDE or JDK or is there one? Does one
> work better in Ubuntu? The features I'm most
> interested in are syntax highlighting/assistance,
> object browsing, and autocompletion. I'm basically a
> hobbyist. I've worked with Netbeans for WinXP, which
> was pretty nice, but seemed a tad bloated for my
> actual needs. Any thoughts or advice? 

NetBeans is about to come out with a new version (4.1).  It has support
for everything you mention as well as EJBs and Web Services.  Has a
great GUI editor and a database explorer built-in.  Since it's so close
to release, I'd recommend a daily build:

http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/download.php?a=n&p=1

After download, just change the permissions to executable and run it,
you get a nice GUI installer.

For help, join the nbusers mailing list:

http://www.netbeans.org/community/lists/top.html

I've been using it professionally for four years (both GUI and web apps)
and couldn't live without it.

(Like all large IDEs, it is hungry.  Have at least 512M memory and a
1GHz machine.)

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