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Stuart Howard wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I am a Gentoo user with an urge to try my hand at coding, java seems |
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> to fit the bill as a language that has cross platform appeal and so |
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> on, you guys know the rest. |
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> My question is this, I want to spend my time learning the language not |
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> the various apps that allow me to do this so what would your |
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> recommendation be for a new starter such as myself. |
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> I seem to have a choice of using either blackdown or the sun packages, |
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> I have read sufficient to realise that the blackdown project was the |
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> original linux port of Sun's Java but Today what would you suggest as |
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> the platform to pick ie. is the Blackdown package well supported under |
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> Gentoo? will updates come promptly when considered stable? or the the |
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> Sun package better supported? and for that matter as a new user would |
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> I be better of with one or the other for a reason I have not yet come |
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> too? |
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Blackdown is as well supported as Sun on Gentoo, as far as JDK/JREs go. |
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The common belief is that Sun is faster than Blackdown, but I've never |
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seen any hard numbers. Aside from that, they should be functionally the |
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same. |
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> Next up would be an IDE, is Kdevelop good for java or is netbeans a |
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> good choice? again your experiance would be helpful at this stage, the |
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> netbeans site seems to imply that they provide functinality not |
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> available elsewhere will this mean that my code [once I get there ;) ] |
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> be specific to netbeans? or should I go for a fundamentalist approach |
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> and stick to "simple" approach and trusty vim? |
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I've heard good things aboug BlueJ [1] for an IDE for a beginner. The |
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idea is that you use that while learning the language, and then |
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eventually ween yourself off of it onto a more full-fledged IDE, like |
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netbeans or eclipse. Unfortunately, we don't have a package for it yet. |
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I personally live and die by Eclipse. It has a lot of functionality |
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built-in, in addition to the multitude of quality third-party plugins. |
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> Any Gentoo/general points will happily received |
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You may want to use ~arch keywords for your Java packages.There hasn't |
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been a lot of stablization going on recently, but this is something we |
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are currently working on. |
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> stu |
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> ps. You may wonder why I dont just read the websites, well what can I |
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> say but I am doing but inevitablly websites lead to a slanted view, |
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> after all people have spent their valable time to put it up there so |
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> of course they prefer there approach whereas as a list will grab a |
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> broader view on the subject. |
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- Josh |
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