Kenneth Kellum wrote:
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Rachel Greenham wrote:
scsijon wrote:
I use it for OS2 and NT, and have had the least rework of any Java Compiler.
See http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/vajava/ Poke around and you'll find the Linux version. It's a hefty download as I recall.
I'd be interested in hearing opinions on vajava for linux. At San Jose State our first two programming courses are taught in C++ using MS Visual C++ (it's a horror show). We'll likely switch to Java next year and (I hope) have NT/Liinux dual boots in our student labs. Would Linux/vajava work for beginning student programmers?
Even if on the pay list
I've found that installing Visual Age for Java under SuSE anyway works just fine.
-- Rachel
For me too. It is an excellent Java GUI RAD. It has a nice tutorial in the package, and there is a very nice book and tutorial at the website which you can read online or download. My only complaint with it was the general one about the speed of interpreted Java applets. (I didn't see where you could compile to a binary executable) Download instructions tell you that you need a minimum of a 200MHz machine with 64MB RAM. It ran ok on my P166 with 64MB, once it was loaded. I am somewhat concerned about Java's future, though, given Sun's latest attitude about it and Linux in general. Make no mistake about it, Sun considers Linux a mortal enemy. It is only IBM's presence in the Java realm with VAJ that makes it worth continuing to consider Java, IMHO. Anyway, I just removed VAJava Sunday to make room for KDE's latest beta of KDevelop. It is an awesome tool and has a nice form painter (dialog) too. It includes version control (CVS) and the online (right panel) documentation including syntax for C++ is *very* nice! It even has the option to roll your app up into a gz ball for delivery. JLK
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