Re: [Sheflug] Java Programming

[David Holden <nospam [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:29, Chris J wrote:
> And Lo! The Great Prophet " Douglas Mckendrick" uttered these words of
> wisdom...
> > I'd like to have a go at java programming, can anyone recommend a compiler
> >  debugger or wotnot.  I don't really fancy waiting 7 hours for sun's or
> > ibm's  ide to download.
> > Cheers
> > Doug
> 
> Well you can always just download the basic SDK from www.blackdown.org and
> use $EDITOR / $VISUAL for editing... :)
> 
> 38MB download for the 1.4.1 beta though. I don't know if there are any other
> compilers out there.
> 
> Chris...


  doesn't your distro come with a java compiler, I don't know of any
"small" java setup. If you have emacs/xemacs this has a good jde mode
though.


 dave.


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