I'm an employee of OTI (Object Technology International), the little company inside IBM responsible for VAJ. I'm pleased to report that good things are on the horizon. :) I don't know if anyone here keeps up with OOPSLA, but last week we (OTI) gave a demo of our current project - a development framework called Eclipse. The Eclipse framework and a set of plugins will be released to the public in the near future - free and open source. One of the plugins included in Eclipse is our latest Java IDE. Eclipse is currently available for both Windows and Linux. I do Java development in Eclipse running on Linux everyday (we develop Eclipse in Eclipse). The IDE is very nice and we're doing our best to stay up to date with new versions of the JDK. We currently support up to 1.3 and I started work on our 1.4 debug support a few days ago. For more information on Eclipse, feel free to check out www.eclipsecorner.org. Many areas of the site (the newsgroup and download area, unfortunately) currently require a password (which can be obtained through IBM if you or your company is really interested in Eclipse), but that will be changing. - Jared On Tue Oct 23 09:15 pm, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:48:27PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > >> It's about that time again. > >> > >> Any improvement in the Java IDE category for linux since April? > > > > Your firehose is geting ticly Bob? We just had 10 paralell flamewars > > going on las week. We are tired! We won't bite! Not this time... > > > > Still reading? > > > > Both vim and emacs just released major versions lately... > > > > Now really... I have tried a bunch and everytime came back to vim... > > > > But maybe is just me. > > florin, crouching and hiding > > No, life still suks. Like you, I have tried many. I am a VisualAge for > Java fan > > but I can't development against a 1.1.7 JDK which is where IBM left VAJ > 3.02 for Linux. > > > I can't stand project-based products like NetBeans or Forte. They get in > my way more than they help. I rather > > use Ant so I know exactly how my project is set up. > > > Right now, I use an editor called JEdit. The only drawback is it is > written in Java, so you need a fast machine to use it. It has plug-ins > to augment functionality including one for JSwat. If I was ambitious, I > would write a plug-in for JEdit to tie into CVS.