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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Java questions which don't deserve their own thread, yet.
 
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Sym
Feb 22, 2006
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FuzzyBuddha posted:

Stupid IDE question....

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What benefits do the others have and how does JCreator rank among the others?

Well first and foremost, JCreator is Windows only. All the others are cross compatible.

From a Windows user point of view JCreator is nice since its written in C++ and has a very fast clean interface. The debugger is also very well done, similar to the .NET debugger.

The downsides are fairly large, It doesn't do code completion unless you purchase the pro version, it only connects to a CVS repository (no SVN support), No drag/drop GUI creator, and it doesn't have the ability for plugins.

Not supporting plugins is what really hurts it. Simple things like debugging a JSP, or Servlet which is pretty straight forward in the other IDE's just isn't possible with JCreator.

As someone who has paid for the professional version of JCreator, I wish I had put the money into IntelliJ.

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