Re: Editing Java

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:06 AM David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/19/2018 9:35 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:

It's not so bad now with PASE and open source.

Even so, a purpose built IDE is much better than a generic editor.

What I mostly need is an editor that does formatting and some syntax
checking and suggestions.

For Java, I do use NetBeans IDE. For Go language, Atom editor is
effectively an IDE.

For other stuff, jEdit and Midnight Commander with F-keys bound to scripts.

And now this latter solution works on PASE.

With jEdit, Atom, or any other GUI editor, you *STILL* need a workstation
... why not do the hard work on a workstation (which is going to be faster)
with an IDE that supports immediate compile, syntax checking, context
hints, debugging, etc.

Add to that, if someone has RDi for RPG, Cobol, & Cl development ... they
automatically have a very rich Java development environment.

For the classic ILE languages I'd agree. For CL itself, SEU is still great,
for that matter.

For Java, Ruby, Python, etc. on the i RDi NOT NEEDED - NOT INVITED! :)

IMO, there's no way to justify doing java development directly on the i if

you have RDi (or just about any of it's predecessors).

NetBeans NetBeans NetBeans and again I say NetBeans :)