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On 11-Jul-2002, "Chad Myers" <cmyers@N0.S.P4.M.austin.rr.com> wrote:

> From my limited experience with both, JBuilder might be the
> better for a Java newbie. I think it can do a little more handholding.
> You can grow into JBuilder. From my experience with Eclipse, it's
> mainly for the professional, Java expert who has some decent experience.
>

I just downloaded the Trial version of it.  Jbuilder 7 Enterprise.
I like it alot and it reminds me a little of MS InterDev sort of.

I also tried Eclipse after installed the required addons to work
and it was more of a editor that required Java knowledge already.

I must say that I got so much shi* to learn for work in Java
and very soon I will be forced to learn VB and VB Advance
for college.

> I'm sure you could use both and be very happy, but to get started,
> you might want to look closely at JBuilder.
>
> But since Eclipse is free, you might just fall in love with it =)
>
> BTW, I really liked jEdit (www.jedit.org). It's not really an "IDE",
> per se, it's more of a glorified text editor, but it's great for
> crankin' out serious Java code and it has a really great macro
> environment, IMHO.
>

I hear people use emacs with plugins for the java modules and such
but for me.  When I have to learn so much and do so many things
besides programming I need something simpler to get the task done.

There is no longer the days when you knew C++ or VB that you were
set.  Today's work-force I noticed you have to know Java, VB, CORBA
WebLogic, Db2, Oracle, SQL Server and such for the 50K a year; or
maybe 60K.