Re: Best IDE for Java? **Best Price**

[Ed Coyle]

The best Price
IBM Visual Age for Java
Free download

[Paul Clapham]

I'm using VisualAge for Java, the Expensive, sorry I mean Enterprise
Edition. It's a very good tool for keeping track of the relationships
between classes in a project; for example, if I need to change this method
here so that its parameter is a String instead of an int, what else will I
have to change? For designing applets... I went through a tutorial and I
must have done one step slightly wrong; could I figure out what it was from
that spider web? Not a chance. Probably designing GUIs with any of the
IDEs is going to be write-only programming, but definitely with VAJ. (OK,
maybe you could get used to it if you used it enough.)

Even the Professional edition of VAJ is free, but it was a 116 megabyte
download last time I looked. Not practical unless you have a reliable,
high-speed connection. But there must be an Entry edition, which could be
worth looking at for an entry to Java.

PC2

"Ed Coyle" <ecoyle@oceancomputer.com> wrote in message
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> The best Price
> IBM Visual Age for Java
> Free download
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