I just found the best IDE

[swpalmer]

Yeah, that's it exactly.... It just happens that  my source control database is set up with a Development fodler and a Maintenance folder with identical projects within.  Eclipse doesn't like to see those folders inside the workspace.  Rather they should be the root of the workspace - but obvioulsy bothof them can't be.

I can work around it by overriding the working folder that I check out to so that the Maintenance branch has the version number appended to the project name or something.

[LeCastor]

OMG !!!!

I've just tried Gel...

This IDE is, IMO, the greatest Java IDE ever ! Adopted for life !

It works like VS.NET's IDE (the best one on earth), and I especially like the code completion which shows the description.

[Abuse]

ok I finally moved over to Gel, from JCreator, and I've got a problem.

The PrettyPrinter plugin for JRefactory is misbehaving,
The first time I run it, all is fine - it formats the class I have open.
However, all subsequent attempts result in a 'cannot parse file' error, and thats it
Not a very helpful error message

I have tried using both JRefactory 2.9.9 (most recent stable) and 2.9.18 (most recent unstable), but it made no difference what-so-ever.

So, my question - has any1 got the PrettyPrinter plugin in Gel working correctly?

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[HamsterofDeath]

intelliJ

[CaptainJester]

Heresy! It's not written in Java!  

But seriously, one of the things I value in NetBeans and Eclipse is that they are both platforms bigger than simple IDEs and that they can self-host stuff you are debugging be it a IDE extension or a Java web server like Tomcat, is awesomely useful. My only complaint against Eclipse is the lack of 'big project' state - i.e., only one user context - oh and the SWT (I'm a Swing fan).

Go to the Eclipse plug-in catalogue.  You will find many visual Swing development plug-ins