java development questions

[jack craig]

Very helpful Greg, Thx!

On 09/16/2009 02:40 PM, listmail at websage.ca wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:14:23 -0700
> jack craig<jackc at linuxlighthouse.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am using a FC11 os and want to learn Java.
>>
>> I am faced with choices that i don't have good answers for and wonder
>> what wisdom this group may have to offer?
>>
>> first, IDE's; there are eclipse and IcedTea6 (which doenst have much
>> doc), are there others i am missing?
>>
>> anyone got pros/cons for eclipse or icedtea?
>>
>> also, there is the sun jdk, but this os seems to have openjdk also,
>> anyone comment on this choice?
>> openjdk also seems shy of install/config docs, ... ???  may both be
>> installed&  usable at once?
>> (not at the same time of course).
>>
>> all comments welcome, tia, jackc...
>>
>>      
>
> FWIW I'm using NetBeans 6.7 with OpenJDK on F11/X86_64 for java dev and
> quite happy with it. I believe you can have multiple jdks on the same
> machine but you need to establish one as 'active' using the cli:
>
> alternatives --config java
>
> API docs are usually packaged separately, which may explain why you
> didn't see them...
>
> I used to use eclipse but found I was spending WAY too much time
> fiddling with dependences, etc. and had problems with SVN support
>
> HTH,
>
> G
>
>    

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