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Hello,

I would like to know which IDE is good? NetNeans, Eclipse, JDeveloper.

In Eclipse can I work on Swings as well as J2EE?

Please give your ideas and suggestions!

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For Eclipse, you need a plugin for Swing or J2EE (unless you want to code everything by hand without any tool support.)

All of the IDEs you listed are "good." It depends what you are looking for. Any specific criteria?
 
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Thanks for the reply.

#1 criteria is what are prospective employers looking for?.
Which one got the demand in the market in terms of employement.

#2 which IDE has the flexibility? i.e. for J2EE, Swing etc.

How is JDeveloper? How's the demand how much is the learning curve time compared to Eclipse and NetBeans and others?

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1) Some employers are looking for experience with the IDE they use Most are more interested in you knowing the concepts, the application server and having experience. If you've used any IDE, you can learn another quickly enough.

2) Eclipse has a wide variety of plugins. If not sure if IDEA does. Does anyone here know?
 
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You can find the plugins for IntelliJ IDEA here:
http://www.intellij.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IntelliJPluginsHome

IntelliJ supports Swing development (WYSISWYG) and J2EE (Tomcat, BEA, Orion, Resin, JBOSS)
 
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Thanks for the replies.

How about JDeveloper?
What are prons and cons?

Cosmos
 
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JDeveloper:
Pros:
- Integrated well with Oracle technologies (Oracle Application Server, Oracle DB, etc)
- Full featured (integrated UML modeller, J2EE supported IDE, integrated WYSIWYG for GUI development)

Contras:
- Huge resources eater.
- Slow

If you dont use any Oracle technologies, but you want indeed use superior IDE and money is not an issue than try IBM WSAD 6.0.
I myself is very happy with IntelliJ IDEA. As I said above, it supports many Application servers out there (Tomcat, BEA, Orion, Resin). It has also many nice features. And it is not so expensive compared to WSAD.

For your consideration, check also Netbeans 4. Although it is not final now, but it seems very nice too.

Eclipse 3 is also nice. It has large community and tons of plugins. But in my opinion, Eclipse 3 eats too much resources and it is really a dumb IDE of compared to IDEA (okay, for fairness, I cant compare the free IDE and 500 US$ IDE).

It's better you try them out and decide which one suit your needs.
 
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Can I someone tell me how to download eclipse? I am at their site now and am confused.

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Go to: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php

Than choose the mirror. Normally you should choose the mirror near your location. Example: you are in Germany than you can choose:
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclipse

Than from there, you can choose which version. The latest stable build of Eclipse is 3.0.1. Therefore you can go to:
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclipse/R-3.0.1-200409161125/

From there you can choose the version that suit your OS. If you use Windows than you can choose:
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclipse/R-3.0.1-200409161125/eclipse-SDK-3.0.1-win32.zip

If you use Linux than you can choose:
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclipse/R-3.0.1-200409161125/eclipse-SDK-3.0.1-linux-gtk.zip
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