JBuilder 3: Building Java Apps Under Linux
In Conclusion
Eric Foster-Johnson
Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:57:37 PM
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/. « Back: Freely Available: JBuilder 3 Foundation for Linux
