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If you build a Visual J++ "empty project" it can be ported. But once you
start adding ocx's and COM wrappers, the compiler will add microsoft windows
extensions to your code. It will warn you first. So as long as you stay away
from "windows" stuff, your code will be portable.

Visual J++ is a fine tool, intuitive, and easy to use. about 100X better
than any UNIX development environment I have used.

As far as for a school project, it would probably be overkill. - you could
just use note pad or vi (depending on the environment you are working in.)

However, the industry standard seems to be going towards Visual Cafe; but
there are alot of Visual J++ users as well. Becasue of the microsoft trials,
Microsoft is holding back on a lot of new feature development. If you can
get a free trial of Visual Cafe that might be your best route.




Tony Alicea <tony@alicea.org> wrote in message
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> Sun owns NetBeans now:
>
> http://www.netbeans.com/
>
> Tony Alicea
>
> ---------------------------
>
> TX PYRO wrote:
> >
> > I am enrolled in a university Computer Science I class.  The
> > instructor told us we could use any version of Java to develop
> > our programs as long as it still compiled and ran correctly on
> > the Sun OS-5 based university system. He was real vague.
> >
> > The last Comp Sci I class I took was at another university and it
> > covered C++.  The development software was an ancient Digital
> > Equipment Corp version with a PC emulator shell.  I bought Visual
> > C++ and it made life much easier.
> >
> > I'm looking into Visual J++ 6.0 STD, JBuilder 3 STD, or any other
> > software for that matter.  The more user friendly the better
> > (I've just started learning).  Any recommendations or opinions
> > would be greatly appreciated?
> >
> > txpyro@flAsh.net