FAQs: Java

Trojan

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phobos

The URL: www.ijug.org

There is 4 administrators (2 active ATM), and several Moderators, with close to 400 members.

I am the Open Source Development/Educational Admin, as well as being the Wireless/J2ME Mod ATM.

The site recently won an award, which you can read about online. Myself & 2 other guys, got the ball rolling with it last June. At the time there were less than 30 members (and little need for a discussion forum). Now the forums are quite active.

It's all good.

;-phobos-)

Hobbes

Here's a link worth reading.

Thinking in Patterns. Problem-Solving Techniques using Java.

http://www.jdon.com/designpatterns/TIPatterns/html/Index.html

Trojan

IDEs for Java (and general use)
In order of contribution.

[Hobbes]
JBuilder (Borland)
Eclipse (Mulitple companies/Open source)
Sun ONE Studio 4 (aka Forte, aka TeamWare)

Those studying for J2 certification are recommended to use notepad[1].

[Phobos]
Jext

It starts off as an editor, but with plenty of fine plugins available, you can turn it in to a half decent IDE.

As for using a plain ASCII editor, if you really want to learn a language, it's good practice. Simple use it in conjunction with the jdk command line utils and you're away.

[Evil Phil]
Edit Plus
Handy programmers text editor with syntax highlighting etc. and can run the jdk command line utilities on your files.

[Slaanesh]
Textpad

[Trojan]
JEdit
UltraEdit

1. I'd recommend *any other* general purpose text editor rather than Notepad. See The Pragmatic Programmer for more details - Trojan

Hobbes

Anyone studying for taking the Java exams.

http://www.jchq.net/

Also IBM have a training course for studying for the SCP1.4 exam (you have to register but it is free).

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/j-dw-java-scjp-i.html

GreeBo

I think intelliJ is pretty much the best IDE around.
Its not free but they have an Early Access Program that lets you download the latest version (might be a bit beta, but just go for the latest release)
You get a 30 day key but nothing stops you from getting another one when/if that expires.
It has various plugins such as SQL browsers, web apps, xml extensions and has build in support for refactoring, javadocs, code style etc.
Give it a go.
I find it better than eclipse and less intensive (not to mention better) than NetBeans.


<edit>
feel free to zap this post and just add intelliJ to the above list of IDE's.

HaVoC

java game programming : http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/
some of his techniques are questionable but he explains and implements a 2d framework rather well.

Farls

HaVoC wrote:

java game programming : http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/
some of his techniques are questionable but he explains and implements a 2d framework rather well.

He also explains 3D Java and moves into GL4Java, JOGL and LWJGL giving excellent links and resources.

Would definitley recommend this site.

Farlz