Java: what would you recommend?

[DarkJedi9]

I have the java SDK installed and I can do command line compiling and execution but in Windows I got used to using TextPad, a simple text editor that could do the run and compile for you (provided the SDK was installed) as well as auto-indent and colorizing and the like. Very slick. I've been looking for a suitable replacement in Linux. My brother uses SciTE but he used Gentoo and emereged it and it worked right off. I'm on Slack and when I try to do the compile or run, it says command not found. I have already put proper export statements in my /etc/profile so $PATH and $CLASSPATH are good, I just don't know how to get SciTE to use them.

Does anybody using SciTE know what's up here? Also, (my subject finally gets in here) I'm looking for suggestions if any of you guys (and gals) have a java IDE you really like; I'm certainly not locked into SciTE. Thanks.

[DarkJedi9]

Geez, cold shoulder. Brr...

[sasKuatch]

HAve you tried Forte? It's probably on Sun's site, and should run in linux as well. Sorry I don't know for sure, but I don't code Java except for Robocode :D

[Sawdusty]

Vim or Emacs are the generally used text editors for linux. Both take a lot of getting used to, but are more powerful than anything else. (AFAIK. If I don't AFAIK I'll get flamed :D)

Also, you should search google for jedit, which is even written in java.

And the forte IDE is indeed very useful.

HTH

Dusty

[DarkJedi9]

Cool. I'll check those out. Other sources have also recommended a few; I'm sure I'll find one that works for me. Thanks for the input!

[Zaren]

I use Vim to write java. It'll do auto indent pretty well, and I found coloring and stuff on gvim for windows... *shrug* I've yet to go home and see if it'll work with vim on my linux box though.

~Z

[APwrs]

In Windows, I use a very nice (and free) editor called JCreator, and in Linux I simply use KDE's Advanced Editor. It has syntax highlighting, and although I miss the auto-indenting and un-indenting of JCreator, it's still not all that bad to use. By the way, instead of installing Sun's JDK, I find it preferable to install Sun's JRE, and then install Jikes from IBM. Jikes compiles things just as good as Sun's JDK, except its a heck of a lot faster, and it only needs the JRE to be installed to do it, instead of the whole JDK, which saves space.

[ViMan]

Of course I recommend Vim (who wouldn't?), but if you want to use Emacs, then you should definitely give http://jdee.sunsite.dk/ a look. It's a Java Development Environment for Emacs.