Re: AW: [Jsynthlib-devel] Compiling the OSX driver code. Not using com.apple.jar?

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

denis queffeulou wrote:

> I prefer the couple ant/JEdit to Eclipse or Netbeans when doing simple 
> developpement (I hate wasting time to configure IDE).
>
> I think it's a good thing to maintain the build.xml because it can be 
> used as well in IDE as input for project or with ant. Also, it 
> describes the main tasks of building JSynthLib in a clear manner.

I love using ant/JEdit, too. Up until I tried NetBeans and Eclipse, most 
IDE's merely provided syntax highlighting, an easy way to invoke the 
compiler, and, most importantly, possibly a debugging environment.

Eclipse and IDEA now provide some things that just make it *really* nice 
to use them, these days. One thing that I really like is being able to 
right-click on any identifier and I can choose "Go To -> Declaration" 
and it will take me to where I declared that variable. Then, I can do 
the same thing to the classname and go directly to the class definition. 
It really makes it easy to find things. Another big advantage is that 
the IDE does completion. I can type "someobject.set" and the IDE will 
quickly find out what class "someobject" is and it will give me a list 
of all of the methods that begin with "set". It will also show me the 
parameters and return-values that they use.

We're way off-topic now, and I don't want to start a religious war. I 
just wanted to point out that I *do* like the ant/JEdit combination (and 
still use it for things like JSP development), but the IDE's that are 
available these days really do make it nicer to work on projects the 
size of JSL.

- Joe