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tools you say? Ant, Maven, javac, and IntelliJ are all I use on a daily basis. Maybe pencil and paper to draw some design concepts and take notes, and that's it. One reason to choose Java is to prevent (or reduce) vendor lockin, adapting too many tools that force you to work inside the framework provided by those tools only increases vendor lockin. Why do you think Sun is changing all tutorials to be Netbeans specific? It's the only way to get people to lock themselves in to Sun products when using Java, and not realise they've done it to themselves. Mind I don't blame Sun (much) for trying to increase the market share of their baby IDE, though IMO using beginners' tutorials for that is rather unethical for the maintainer of the language, but please don't turn Java into another language that can only be used in the context of a specified set of tools (like VB, Progress, CAVO, and so many others). |
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