Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Claude Saunders <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:06:56 -0600

Hi,

It's not looking to me like anyone in the free IDE category is going to
clearly win. Both Eclipse and NetBeans have ardent followers. It does
look like the EPICS community is leaning towards Eclipse from what I can
see, though.
But regardless of which IDE you use, any (java) project one creates
should be buildable outside the IDE using Ant. This is actively
supported and encouraged for Eclipse. You just need to put in a small
effort to create a build.xml file along with your project. This allows a
developer to use whatever IDE they choose (or none, for emacs types such
as myself). Projects that use Ant build.xml are naturally portable
across IDE.
 - Claude "I don't use an IDE, but that doesn't stop me from having an
opinion." Saunders

Lecorche Eric wrote:

Hi everybody,
I suppose it is quite a recurrent question but as we are starting our
project, we wonder about the community feeling concerning the Java IDE
to be adopted, considering the fact that Java is quite a new
environment for us.
So, what Java IDE do you suggest to be preconised for a new project ?
Our preferences would make us look further both at Eclipse and
NetBeans (also someone in the lab uses Jbuilder) ; among the Epics
users, is there any consensus for one of these ? Are there any ways
later to move from one IDE to an other one or does this choice will
impact the whole life of the project ?
The same type of question also apply for the graphic library to use
(Teechart, Jchart, Jfreechart ... other ?). Is it possible to
standardize one or does it depend on the GUI to be created ?
Eric Lecorche

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System