Ask HN: What is a good Java IDE?

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by chromedude • 15 years ago

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I am learning Java and am trying to find a good free Java IDE. Any suggestions?

seb_z_lite• 15 years ago

Netbeans

philbo• 15 years ago

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

sophacles• 15 years ago

Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ all have strong user/fan-bases. Those might be a good place to start. (note: IntelliJ is only free for some editions and types of development).

bartonfink• 15 years ago

Eclipse works well, is free and has good community support.

zura• 15 years ago

JCreator http://www.jcreator.com/

I think it is the only decent Java IDE not written in Java. From the site: "JCreator is written entirely in C++, which makes it fast and efficient compared to the Java based editors/IDE's."

gooderlooking• 15 years ago

IntelliJ Idea Ultimate is by far my favorite Java IDE. The community version (free version) is still good and updates are frequent, but you don't get as much of the "I" in IDE.

Eclipse is free and has a huge user base, lots of plugins, and people even build full applications on top of the open platform.

chc• 15 years ago

This kind of question is much better asked on a proper Q&A site like programmers.stackexchange.com, not a news site like HN.

Ask HN: What is a good Java IDE?

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