Java ide installation (Sun)

[Derek Broughton]

Haim Ashkenazi wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>> 
>>> John Dangler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:46 +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Well, it seems to have liked it... it's installing files at the moment.
>>>> I'll let you know in a few minutes if it works or not...
>>>> Thanks for the help with this. I need to get it running as soon as
>>>> possible.  I'm trying to learn java so I can put together a client app
>>>> that connects to a mysql db...
>>> any reason you're using sun studio and not netbeans (or eclipse)?
>> 
>> Is there an essential difference between Sun Studio and Netbeans? I
>> thought Sun Studio was just an extension of Netbeans.
> AFAIK sun donated the code of sun studio enterprise to netbeans (which is
> open source), and all further development is done in netbeans (but I could
> be completely wrong here, it's just something I think I've read
> somewhere). I'm almost sure that netbeans supports much more technologies
> then sun studio (either in the core installation or through plugins).

Ah - in which case I had it backwards.  I know Sun donated the code for
Netbeans, and I thought at one point they'd completely decided to drop Sun
Studio, but wasn't clear on the relationship between them.

-- 
derek