Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pearson, MR \(Matthew\)" <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:38:45 -0000

Hi,

It's certainly possible to develop large projects using more than IDE
(we used Eclipse and Jbuilder). In the end it was down to personal
preference as to which one was used. Both Eclipse and Netbeans support
Ant.

The built-in GUI builder in Netbeans is very good. I think Netbeans also
has better support for J2EE projects.

However, I mainly used Eclipse. It might be more customisable in the
long term... Custom EPICS view??

Java plotting libraries are changing all the time. If a particular one
is chosen it may be wise to maintain an 'EPICS version' of that library.
This would also allow for customisation relevant for Epics client
applications.

Regards,
Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Saunders [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 22 February 2007 17:07
To: Lecorche Eric
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Java IDE & graphic library

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
>
>

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