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JBuilder is very stable, four crashes in 200 hours for me so far.

I don't want to sound like a bandwagon boy, but I would challenge someone to
show me a better RAD product for Java.

My biggest complaint about JBuilder (version 1) used to be the fact that I
couldn't develop small, non-JBCL applets very easily. Can now. If I was
going to list the biggest flaws in the JBuilder design, I would point out
that...

    1)    I can't debug in any version of Java other than JDK1.1.6_Borland.
    2)    The actual JBuilder program is based on a beta version of Sun's
Swing components and it will continue to be kludgy to get the forthcoming
versions of Swing to coexist with JBuilder. I'm sure Borland will be
releasing 2.X when JDK1.2 is released. Hopefully for our sake, it won't be
JBuilder 3.0! Those upgrade fees were steep, or so my customer tells me!
    3)    JBCL2 contains a number of components that are still heavyweight
and therefore you cannot build a complex GUI app that intermixes these
components with all of the lightweight components that also come in JBCL2
without handling visibility and Z-ordering issues manually.

Wouldn't trade it for the world. Just being honest.

jim

Daniel Santos wrote in message <6lppdq$75j$5@gte1.gte.net>...
>I'm trying to determine the best RAD product to use right now and I'm
>just trying to get more information about JBuilder 2.
>
>Thanks
>
>Daniel
>