If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time, you probably know that I love JetBrains' IDEA. IDEA has been banned from my place of business for political reasons (which really sucks) and it has been made known that if you install IDEA at work, you will be fired. I like IDEA, but I like my job a bit better.
So my employer requires that I use JBuilder. Compared to IDEA, it just stinks. The only alternative to JBuilder is Eclipse. Now, Eclipse is nice and all. I would say even better than JBuilder, but it does not support JSP or XML files "out of the box". I can hear all of those Eclipse lovers screaming "Install the plugins!!" unfortunately the same politicos that say no to IDEA, also say no to Eclipse Plugins. At this point I just want to throw my hands in the air and give up.
While giving Eclipse a try today, I set up the syntax highlighting. I must say, Picasso would have been envious of my color coordination! Anyway, I gave up on Eclipse when I had to edit my 234238th XML file. So, back to JBuilder. Everything looks so bland. I get to color code the reserved words, operators and symbols, numbers, strings and comments. I bet vim has better syntax highlighting, I know jEdit does.
I wish there was something I could do, but I am stuck with JBuilder. Of course most of my friends think I am lame because they all like JBuilder. I just think they have a higher tolerance for pain.
Posted by carl at June 30, 2004 09:48 PM
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