I had been using Netbeans all the while to develop Swing application. So far, I am a Happy Netbeans User
Currently, I had a project (GWT, J2EE and Swing), which I need to use Eclipse (Please do not ask Why)
Here is the step I had been taken.
Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (190 MB) from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ I thought this should be the correct choice, as I see most features are found in that edition http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/compare-packages
After struggling a while to get use to the user interface of Eclipse, I still cannot find a Visual GUI Editor!
After doing some Googling, I realize I need to install something called Plugins
However, tones of plugins which had similar features has confused me, as I found
http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/index.html
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/WebContent/main.php
http://code.google.com/p/visualswing4eclipse/
This makes me even more confuse? Which plugin I should use to develop a Swing based application? Most of them seems not up-to-dated. Or, is there any complete bundle I can download, where 1 click, will install all the necessary Swing development tools for me?
I just miss my Netbeans :( I really appreciate their team, who make the installation work so easy. One click button install, all the necessary tools just come to me
Eclipse users typically program UI by hand.
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I'm coming from NetBeans and evaluating others and more flexible IDEs supporting more languages (i.e. Python) than just php and related.
I kept an eye on Eclipse that seems to be the best choice; at the time I was not able to find an easy solution to keep the original project on my machine and automatically send / syncronize the files on the remove server via sftp.
All solutions seems to be outdated or stupid (like mounting a smb partition or manually send the file via an ftp client!
I'm not going to believe that an IDE like Eclipse doesn't have a smart solution of what I consider a basic feature of an IDE, so I think I missed something... On Eclipse forums I've seen the same question asked lots of time but without any answer!
Some suggestions about is strongly apreciated otherwise I think the only solution is stick on one IDE each language I use that seem to be incredible on 2018.
I'm developing on MacOS and the most interesting solution (kDevelop) fails on building with MacPorts.
Thank you very much.
RSE is a very poor solution, as you noted it's a one-shot sync and is useless if you want to develop locally and only deploy occasionally. For many years I used the Aptana Studio suite of plugins which included excellent upload/sync tools for individual files or whole projects, let you diff everything against a remote file structure over SFTP when you wanted and exclude whatever you wanted.
Unfortunately, Aptana is no longer supported and causes some major problems in Eclipse Neon and later. Specifically, its editors are completely broken, and they override the native Eclipse editors, opening new windows that are blank with no title. However, it is still by far the best solution for casual SFTP deployment...there is literally nothing else even close. With some work it is possible to install Aptana and get use of its publishing tools while preventing it from destroying the rest of your workspace.
Install Aptana from the marketplace.
Go to Window > Preferences > Install/Update, then click "Uninstall or update".
Uninstall everything to do with Aptana except for Aptana Studio 3 Core and the Aptana SecureFTP Library inside that.
This gets rid of most, but not all of Aptana's editors, and the worst one is the HTML editor which creates a second HTML content type in Eclipse that cannot be removed and causes all kinds of chaos. But there is a workaround.
Exit Eclipse. Go into the eclipse/plugins/ directory and remove all plugins beginning with com.aptana.editor.* EXCEPT FOR THE FOLLOWING which seem to be required:
com.aptana.editor.common.override_1.0.0.1351531287.jar
com.aptana.editor.common_3.0.3.1400201987.jar
com.aptana.editor.diff_3.0.0.1365788962.jar
com.aptana.editor.dtd_3.0.0.1354746625.jar
com.aptana.editor.epl_3.0.0.1398883419.jar
com.aptana.editor.erb_3.0.3.1380237252.jar
com.aptana.editor.findbar_3.0.0.jar
com.aptana.editor.idl_3.0.0.1365788962.jar
com.aptana.editor.text_3.0.0.1339173764.jar
Go back into Eclipse. Right-clicking a project folder should now expose a 'Publish' option that lets you run Aptana's deployment wizard and sync to a remote filesystem over SFTP.
Hope this helps...took me hours of trial and error, but finally everything works. For the record I am using Neon, not Oxygen, so I can't say definitively whether it will work in later versions.
I have just installed the Vaadin plugin for NetBeans. I don't even know what to start with it, but I would love to know, how to get my head around it!
Can anyone help me out?
Just simple little programs or even just starting up my first program(Java).
Take a look at a Vaadin plugin tutorial:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/VaadinPlugin1.1.0
The Netbeans and Vaadin websites do not maintain their tutorials for the latest versions of Netbeans and Vaadin, and are useless. For example, the plugins are no longer installed in the way they currently describe and there are no complete and simple working examples of how to use a database with Vaadin.
For those who are struggling with the current method of installing the Vaadin plugin with NetBeans 8, the best way that I could find is to:
Start Netbeans (the Java EE version).
Go to Tools > Plugins > Installed
Look for Vaadin at the bottom of the list. It will be there but will be unactivated. Click the checkbox and activate/install it.
Unfortunately, even though I got the Vaadin plugin installed, I could find no tutorial that provided a clear explanation of how to use Netbeans 8 and Vaadin to create a simple Vaadin project that can read and write a record to a mysqli database.
I am a C# programmer. I want to learn Java to implement my windows application. But I don't know what IDE and what tools can help me.
Please help me to choose best platform and IDE and other tools.
Edit:
Thank You For Your Helping. And What is Best Ebooks and UserGuids to Learn java.
There are really three big IDE's that people use:
Eclipse
Netbeans
Intellij IDEA (my personal favorite)
The online Java Tutorials are a great place to start learning the language.
Eclipse or NetBeans will be your best bet for an IDE (in my options)
Set up Git for source control
Use Maven to manage your builds (if you're getting that complex)
First, download the java jdk.
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Later, install an IDE. I suggest you to use Eclipse, I like it:
http://www.eclipse.org/
Another one very used is Netbeans:
http://netbeans.org/
Have Fun!
There's a short tutorial along with a great comparison table here. It's a Java tutorial aimed at C# developers.
Java is very close to C# you don't need more than eclipse (Actually I prefer it more than Netbeans) and search for any syntax you want in the Java documentation
JDK
First you need to download Java
development kit(J2SE 6) from Sun's
website
IDEs
eclipse or netbeans
Books
If you are planning to use Swing for
windows application - you may read
sun's tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/
Or if youa re a serious Java learner
get the Thinking in Java book from
here
http://www.odioworks.com/46-Bruce_Eckel%27s_Free_Electronic_Books.html
By the way, welcome to Java's world :)
Welcome to Java World. You can either use Swing or SWT for windows form like development. Here is a good link to get started with SWT http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3330861/SWT-Programming-with-Eclipse.htm .
On top of what the other user's have already recommended, I would suggest getting familiarized with a J2EE container. It will come in handy in the future. Here is a link on what it is. JBOSS container is free and a pretty good one to use in my opinion. You can download it here.
For Windows app with SWT / AWT gui you should know there are plugins for IDE that help you to create your gui. Check for exemple Matisse for NetBeans.
Once you have Eclipse up and running, you should look at the Visual Editor Project plugin at Eclipse for developing windows applications. Hand-coding all of the SWT stuff is a big pain and hence the plugin will help.
netbensIDE will help u
I need some step by step tutorials/documents on developing Java web applications using Eclipse/apache.
appreciate directions/help.
I recommend you read a book instead:
This is probably the simplest way to get started. It really helped me with getting a grasp on how the directory structure and web.xml go together and make a web app. Eclipse is only a partner in your development, you really need to understand the underlying infrastructure no matter what framework you are using, and this book gives you a solid start.
There are some video tutorials available at http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge.net/
The first tutorial begins with the absolute basics of setting up a workspace and getting started. It also shows the Welcome screen available under the help menu which has links to an overview, samples, and tutorials
As you've already installed Apache Tomcat. I assume you've not installed Java EE tools for Eclipse. If not, then First download Eclipse Java EE tools from Help > Software Updates > Available Software > Java EE developer Tools.
First way : is using Tomcat plugin with eclipse,for that you've to check this tutorial
Second way: If the Tomcat Plugin is not working with you then other alternative as follow Click on Click Window in menu> Preferences then click Server pane. Open Runtime Requirement pane. Add path for the tomcat directory. Click Ok. You're done with the settings.
Now you can create new projects from File >New >Projects. And start building servlets/jsp projects. Try learning from good books like "Head first: Servlets & JSP".
Hope this helps.
When you first start Eclipse there is a screen with tutorials right in the program. They are also accessible from the Help menu
Reminds me of that old joke:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Sounds like you have several things that you don't know: Eclipse, Tomcat, Java EE development, maybe JSPs, JSTL, WAR files, the list goes on.
My advice would be to strip things down to the bare bones and decompose the problem a bit.
Start by doing a simple servlet/JSP app talking to a database, without using Eclipse. See if you can compile on the command line, create the WAR file, package it properly, and deploy it on Tomcat.
If you can manage that, then work Eclipse into the mix. Don't worry about running Tomcat inside Eclipse at first. You can go back and forth until the IDE is comfortable.
But you're asking a lot when you say you'd like step by step instructions. You're tackling a very big problem.
DZone REFCARZ might be helpful, there's one for eclipse:
Getting Started with Eclipse
I have just started to try NetBeans. I created a new Java Desktop Application project, and it automatically added the JDesktop "appframework-1.0.3.jar" library. However, whenever I try to view its source, the command fails. I tried searching for it online, but I couldn't find it. So where can I download the source code for the "Swing Application Framework" (appframework.jar and swing-worker.jar)?
http://java.net/projects/appframework/sources/svn/show/trunk/AppFramework
the link and the source is too old and hard to be found,luckly i used 30 min find it in :
https://java.net/projects/appframework/sources/svn/show/trunk/www/downloads?rev=151
you can see the "source","jar","doc" of appframework-1.0.3.jar at the ending.
If you came to this question, because you couldn't find "Swing Application Framework" (appframework.jar) using Tools -> Plugins -> Available Plugins My Answer may help you.
First If you just need appframework.jar please get it from the below link.
If you already click the links in other answers you can Swing Application Framework has migrated from java.net and hard to find where it is migrated
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.java.dev.appframework/appframework/1.03
If you just need Netbeans for Swing Application developments, I suggest you use Netbeans 8.0.2 version. As I experienced Latest version does not have the exact IDE which uses in Video Tutorials, Other versions may not properly work with Swing. As per my experience below version will serve you right when it comes to Java Swing Application developments
https://netbeans.org/downloads/old/8.0.2/