Forte is nice and cheap, but their alternative compiler "fastjavac" is not production quality - it has bugs which occasionally causes it to produce invalid bytecode. The JVM will refuse to load such classes, and you can work around it by specifying another compiler for those specific troublesome classes, so the problem is manageable but it makes large projects very hard to maintain. ...but I've yet to find any bugfree IDE... /Lennart -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: napi5 [mailto:napi5@optonline.net] Skickat: den 1 februari 2001 21:02 Till: suse-linux-e@suse.com Ämne: Re: [SLE] Java Development on SuSE 7.0 Well, Went to the Linux Expo yesterday. Got a lot of what I needed there yesterday. If you get Forte running right it pretty impressive. Not to mention that the community edition which is totally free seemed to include a lot more (even had tomcat)than what Borland charges about $100 to buy. Also the guys at Borland didn't seem to concerned about their customers. I felt like a product myself. I don't know , maybe it's just me but it seems too contrary to the reasons I started using LINUX ; indeed why LINUX was started. I felt I was received much h better at SUN. Anyway, got my IDE development tools working better than I had hoped. I do prefer to do most of my coding in an simple editor but need IDE's for the bigger components. Thanks for all the response on this thread. Robert Napolitano, napi5@optonline.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq