Java Programming

[whitecrook]

Another benefit of an IDE is the marvel that is "Intellisense" or "Code Completion" which is fantasic as both a learning and productivity aid when you're learning the Java class hierarchy. And as someone else mentioned, access to a debugger is pretty much essential.

EDIT: saying that, it is worth having a play with a non-IDE based environment though, so you get an understanding of how to invoke the Java compiler and other tools.

This isn't a feature exclusive to IDE's. Vim has 'auto completion' and quite advanced it is too.

 

[voodooflux]

This isn't a feature exclusive to IDE's. Vim has 'auto completion' and quite advanced it is too.

VI/VIM has certainly moved on - that's a very good feature to have.

Just came across the Eclim project on sourceforge - appears to bring VIM and Eclipse together.

 

[MrWhippy]

ok yeah, a debugger is cool tool, but does it need to be integrated.

i code in rhapsody mostly, but i do most of my maintenance work in vi (for C, C++ or Java), and i debug with gdb or ddd if i'm feeling lazy or need to do a lot of breakpointing or watches.