Java IDEs? 679
Billy the Mountain asks: "In the startup company I'm in, we just got a new president and she asked us about ways of increasing developer productivity. We develop Java applications, servlets and JSP. I don't use an IDE. I use an enhanced text editor, EditPlus, because I like its color coding of keywords. I guess what I'm asking is what Java IDEs do you use and what features do you like best?" If you were to build a Java IDE from the ground up, what features would you include?
Re:IDE - Editor or round trip engineering tool? (Score:2, Funny)
Write the code, get it up and running, and then reverse engineer it into UML via the Rational Rose tools. Satisfies the Architect-types, and makes you look as though you've stuck to the design outlined by those pretty UML pictures.
Err.. not that I've ever done it that way. Nu-uh, not me.
Re:Blech. Most of them are pretty bad. (Score:5, Funny)
Dear god...
Re:What makes a good IDE, aka: Netbeans is real cl (Score:2, Funny)
THE most important feature of any IDE! (Score:2, Funny)
A nice modular addition is the freezer with various frozen mexican foods, but that isn't as mission critical.