Well, Jason, perhaps they have changed but it doesn't look like it. I read the reason they had to ship their own jvm was because real java cannot be used to do their instant/constant compilation -- that's what I've read. I've also read there is a JSR to add that capability to real Java. In my experience, and admittedly I do a lot of Swing development, Eclipse is not usable on Linux (unless the one jvm instance per open JFrame was a bug they've since fixed). I've seen plugins that have specific warnings they only work on Windows. To me, that voids the whole concept of Java. Chuck On 11/15/07, Jason Craig <jacraig@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
I'm with you, Glen. Eclipse 3.3 on openSuse 10.2 just sucks. I presume it would be the same on 10.3. I find nothing wrong with Java 1.6. I've been using 1.6 features for many months without ANY problems. The major problem with Eclipse is they ship their own jvm if I recall correctly. And stuff written to their jvm may not work on real Java. Secondly, if you want to create Swing components it starts an instance of the jvm for each JFrame -- which means your memory is gone in a big hurry. Swing development is really painfully S-L-O-W. I won't go into the issues with SWT which are fairly well documented elsewhere That's a lie. You say the major problem with Eclipse is that they ship
Chuck Davis wrote: their own JVM. They don't. They require you to supply your own, and recommend that you use 1.5. So, now what is Eclipse's major problem?
As far as Java, I generally dislike Java and don't use it much, so I don't feel I can comment on Eclipse for Java work, but I use it daily for web development, PHP, and Python, and semi-daily for C/C++, and I love it. On SUSE 10.2 and 10.3. I love how I can go from work computer to laptop to my home (SUSE) box and work on the same (or different) projects with the same tool, and different underlying build environments.
--Jason
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