Comments on: Signs JBuilder is on the way out

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sad to see that JBuilder is going to die out. I still use it to this day for Java programming. I typical prefer Borland products, but I only actively use JBuilder and C++Builder. I don't want to see any of them die out though :(

By: Lachlan

Lachlan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I for one will be very happy to see JBuilder go. Eclipse and IntelliJ seem to be leading the market at the minute and with good reason.

By: Dr Livingston

Dr Livingston — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

umm...

never a fan of eclipse since it ain't open source and the licence is expensive but i took jbuilder for a spin a while back and liked it

too bad it has to go though, competition is always a good thing in my view :(

By: hurricane_sh

hurricane_sh — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eclipse is based on VAJ, it's open source if memory serves. I was a long time VAJ user, a very very creative product.

By: ColdRolledSteel

ColdRolledSteel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eclipse is open source, go to http://www.eclipse.org.

By: QiSoftware

QiSoftware — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I am a big Borland fan. This is news to me… I have been looking over the press releases from Eclipse. They (Borland) seem to be embracing this open source tool (Eclipse), and I am sure their influence will be well received. Hard to compete with open source. Hope they stay around.

By: Dr Livingston

Dr Livingston — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eclipse is open source? it is?? thought it was commercial it was...

umm, seams i'm wrong then huh? :p ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

send a sample material to me about java &servelets

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eclipse was and is open source. It was made to eclipse the great SUN of Sun Microsystems in the Universe of Java, hence the name :-) Now that it is adopted by IBM you can expect it to become still better.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I use both Eclipse (with MyEclipse plugin) and JBuilder. With the plugin Eclipse has all the featues of JBuilder but I would still go with JBuilder every time. Eclipse is riddled with time-wasting design flaws that could have been picked up with any half decent QA programme. I could give you a list but just try this one:

CTRL-F searches in the current file. First you get a pop-up dialog which stays during the search and obscures what you are searching for. Second press Find Next a couple of times and the found text appears on the very last line of the window so you can't see the context.