On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:14:23 -0700 jack craig <jackc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am using a FC11 os and want to learn Java. > > I am faced with choices that i don't have good answers for and wonder > what wisdom this group may have to offer? > > first, IDE's; there are eclipse and IcedTea6 (which doenst have much > doc), are there others i am missing? > > anyone got pros/cons for eclipse or icedtea? > > also, there is the sun jdk, but this os seems to have openjdk also, > anyone comment on this choice? > openjdk also seems shy of install/config docs, ... ??? may both be > installed & usable at once? > (not at the same time of course). > > all comments welcome, tia, jackc... > FWIW I'm using NetBeans 6.7 with OpenJDK on F11/X86_64 for java dev and quite happy with it. I believe you can have multiple jdks on the same machine but you need to establish one as 'active' using the cli: alternatives --config java API docs are usually packaged separately, which may explain why you didn't see them... I used to use eclipse but found I was spending WAY too much time fiddling with dependences, etc. and had problems with SVN support HTH, G -- Greg Maruszeczka -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
