Any Java Programmers here?

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trekiej wrote:
What is your view of Java?

Fantastic idea, sluggish on certain accounts (memory management, GUI libraries)

What IDE's would you recomend?

Eclipse. Netbeans is ok for gui building, but the source of these GUI's are not portable; you cannot compile a GUI of a netbeans project in another IDE.
Also, the GUI design program in Netbeans is rather limited.

Thanks.

You're welcome :-)

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Crumb wrote:
I don't like it much... but for me it looks more "clean" than .net

You have to get used to C#. It's more clean than java. With delegates, you'll be able to code your project more 1on1 to your design (no need for implementations with threading and observable/observer patterns).

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trekiej wrote:
I understand that Java has this ability.

Basically, yes. But AFAIK some things like AWT are not completely platform-independent. Also, ppl can use platform dependent libraries in their software. Like joystick control is based on such.

and I do not know if C# is a Msoft only idea.

Well it is.. but there is a WIP to get .NET running on Linux. C# will then be a next step, naturally.

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Both C++ as well as Java are OOP.