Re: Does XCode suck for doing Java development work on the Mac ?
Re: Does XCode suck for doing Java development work on the Mac ?
- Subject: Re: Does XCode suck for doing Java development work on the Mac ?
- From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:58:23 -0700
Simon Whelan wrote on Tuesday, July 4, 2006:
>So, my 1st question is this :
>
> How good an IDE is XCode for Java software
>development ?
>
>And, my next question is :
>
> If you do use XCode for Java software development why
>do you prefer it over the other IDE‚s out there?
>
>And, my final question is :
>
> If you don‚t use XCode for Java software development,
>which IDE do you, use and why do you prefer it over
>XCode ?
I'm a certified Java developer and wrote code professionally for many years. I also wrote a book on Xcode and use it day in and day out for my C and Objective-C development. So hopefully I have some perspective on your problem.
For me, this decision reduces down to one question: Are you writing "pure" Java applications/tools/applets, or are you writing Macintosh specific Java that will leverage Mac OS X technologies using JNI or the Cocoa-Java bridge classes?
If the former, I would recommend Eclipse. When writing pure Java applications and JSP pages, I use Eclipse for my development and deployment. It's Java-based, Java-savvy, and Java-centric.
If you have a mix of Java and Macintosh native code, stick to Xcode as the Java-based IDEs tend to fall down when it comes to dealing with platform native development and debugging. I'm not saying that you can't do it; it's just not pretty.
James Bucanek
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