Comments on: GNU/Miscellany http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/01/10/gnu-miscellany/ free software, free culture, free association Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:31:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/01/10/gnu-miscellany/#comment-912 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:15:08 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/01/10/gnu-miscellany/#comment-912 I've used Eclipse on Windows and (briefly) on a GNU/Linux server at my work, so I don't expect much trouble there... And that made me take a look at my Ubuntu install to see that Eclipse is available in "Add/Remove Applications". Installing now -- sweet. I agree that it's a great IDE, and it demonstrates that Java can be pretty snappy, even for a big GUI program. I've been messing around with Java this weekend in GNU and using the built-in text editor, <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/" rel="nofollow">gedit</a>, which is a nice little editor. And it's installed. Complained that it couldn't find a JDK when I tried starting it, but I found <code>/etc/eclipse/java_home</code> where I can point it at Java 6. And now it wants a workspace, to which I'll heed your warning and pick an empty folder... and here we go. Awesome. I’ve used Eclipse on Windows and (briefly) on a GNU/Linux server at my work, so I don’t expect much trouble there…

And that made me take a look at my Ubuntu install to see that Eclipse is available in “Add/Remove Applications”. Installing now — sweet.

I agree that it’s a great IDE, and it demonstrates that Java can be pretty snappy, even for a big GUI program. I’ve been messing around with Java this weekend in GNU and using the built-in text editor, gedit, which is a nice little editor.

And it’s installed. Complained that it couldn’t find a JDK when I tried starting it, but I found /etc/eclipse/java_home where I can point it at Java 6. And now it wants a workspace, to which I’ll heed your warning and pick an empty folder… and here we go. Awesome.

]]> by: Nemo http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/01/10/gnu-miscellany/#comment-908 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:16:31 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/01/10/gnu-miscellany/#comment-908 I have some Java development experience, in case it ever might come in handy -- but it's development on Windows. If you can find a port, the eclipse IDE is highly recommended. Watch for setting a destination folder for class files though, as preexisting data in that folder will be clobbered. Point it at an empty folder! On the language side, I've dabbled a bit in Squeak as well, but Java has on the whole a lot more API documentation and (believe it or not) performance. I have some Java development experience, in case it ever might come in handy — but it’s development on Windows.

If you can find a port, the eclipse IDE is highly recommended. Watch for setting a destination folder for class files though, as preexisting data in that folder will be clobbered. Point it at an empty folder!

On the language side, I’ve dabbled a bit in Squeak as well, but Java has on the whole a lot more API documentation and (believe it or not) performance.

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