JAVA development which one?

[andrew]

Hi,

I am looking for some comment on which Java programming
tool to use. VB is my background. Years ago I used
Symantec Think C and liked that. But I could not find
Visual Cafe at their web site.

Opinions please ? I want a strong Visual Gui environment.
I will be using it from a PC ( WIN 2 K ).

Thanks
Andrew

[bob]

people i work with really like JBuilder. i think it is ok as long as you
write code using sun components...i refuse to use the borland data-aware
controls. the debugger is ok.

"andrew" <andrew.watts@pss.boeing.com> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for some comment on which Java programming
>tool to use. VB is my background. Years ago I used
>Symantec Think C and liked that. But I could not find
>Visual Cafe at their web site.
>
>Opinions please ? I want a strong Visual Gui environment.
>I will be using it from a PC ( WIN 2 K ).
>
>Thanks
>Andrew

[Karnos]

I like IBM's VisualAge for Java the best, but it costs in the thousands range.
MS's Visual J++ is pretty poor, but cheaper than JBuilder and VisAge.

"andrew" <andrew.watts@pss.boeing.com> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for some comment on which Java programming
>tool to use. VB is my background. Years ago I used
>Symantec Think C and liked that. But I could not find
>Visual Cafe at their web site.
>
>Opinions please ? I want a strong Visual Gui environment.
>I will be using it from a PC ( WIN 2 K ).
>
>Thanks
>Andrew

[Tom Duffy]

Hello Andrew:

I've been using Visual Cafe for a few years and like it a lot. It has its
quirks but all IDEs have them. I too came from a VB background and have
found VC the most intuitive IDE to work with when coming from VB.

Symantec recently sold Cafe to Webgain. Find info on it here:

http://www.webgain.com

HTH,

Tom

"andrew" <andrew.watts@pss.boeing.com> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for some comment on which Java programming
>tool to use. VB is my background. Years ago I used
>Symantec Think C and liked that. But I could not find
>Visual Cafe at their web site.
>
>Opinions please ? I want a strong Visual Gui environment.
>I will be using it from a PC ( WIN 2 K ).
>
>Thanks
>Andrew