JBuilder 3: Building Java Apps Under Linux - page 7

Freely Available: JBuilder 3 Foundation for Linux

Like many Java tools, the basic or "Foundation" tools don't support the all the needs of enterprise Java developers. JBuilder, for example, does not support CORBA for program-to-program communications, JDBC for database access, or Enterprise Java Beans at all. For all of these, you need to pay money for the as yet unreleased on Linux higher-end versions of JBuilder.

I'm not normally an IDE person: just give me a good text editor like nedit, a shell window like xterm or gnome-terminal and a fast compiler like IBM's Jikes, and I'm happy. Even so, JBuilder felt good. It has a professional-looking interface and I experienced no problems with it. The integrated class browser and Java API documentation go a long way towards making JBuilder a truly productive programming environment.

Eric Foster-Johnson wrote and co-wrote 14 books on Linux, UNIX, programming, and open-source tools, including and Cross-Platform Perl. He can be reached at erc@pconline.com or http://www.pconline.com/~erc/.