About Eclipse, why isn't the version with fedora good enough? Are there some bugs or problems I should know about? I am going to develop the app as a java program, to work on windows JVM, but I'm going to develop it on FC4... What version do you think I should use?
About source control, I haven't really thought about which one to use, but I think I will stick to CVS since it's most popular on the www, and since you say it fits with Eclipse...
About DBMS, as I said, I want the app to work on windows in the end, so Oracle is the DBMS I know that has both linux & SQL distributions... Are there any others that are good enough? I won't be needing any complex features, just normal SQL queries...
Thanks
On 1/1/06, Rich Stanford <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2005 3:57 pm, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 23:48 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I need to develop a software for a small company, but I really feel
> > that I want to make it all based on free-software... The software will
> > include some code (Duh) which I will write in Java, along with a
> > DBMS...
> >
> > So, I was thinking of using Eclipse for developing the software, and
> > using the new free Oracle 10g-Express Edition as the DBMS...
>
Eclipse is a butt-kicking development environment. I would not use the
version that comes with Fedora, though. I want more control over my
development environment so I usually install it separately. I also install
Java separately and then control it with environmental variables.
> If you are going to learn a new database, i.e. you haven't worked with
> Oracle before, why not use PostgreSQL or MySQL...
I agree with Sean here. PostgreSQL or MySQL will be quite a bit less
complicated to set up and administer than Oracle. And, if you stick to
mostly "standard" SQL, your applications will be fairly transferable between
DBMS.
> > Have any of you tried this combination before? I think I'm settled
> > about using Eclipse to develop the software, but how about the DBMS?
> > Suggestions?
>
> If you need an alternative to Eclipse, try Kdevelop. However, eclipse
> is a very useful piece of software for what you are starting.
>
> Furthermore, what source control system is the application going to be
> maintained under? CVS, subversion, etc....
Critical piece of advice here. Be sure that you pick a good one (Eclipse
works with CVS "out of the box"). Quite often people discount the source
control system. Where I work, we have over 750Mg of source code under CVS.
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