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Does anyone remember the first Java IDEs? I know there was Visual Age for Java by IBM, but Sun had something, too. Was it called "Java Workshop" or something si
by jansan 6y ago
Does anyone remember the first Java IDEs? I know there was Visual Age for Java by IBM, but Sun had something, too. Was it called "Java Workshop" or something similar?
- jansan 6y agoFound it! It was actually called "Java Workshop". Here is a review of v2.0: https://www.irt.org/software/sw017/ https://www.irt.org/software/sw017/ The UI builder was really buggy and almost impossible to use, that's why we learned using GridBagLayout manually.
- severino 6y agoYou made me remember there was an IDE called "Visual Café" around that time. It was from Symantec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Caf%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Caf%C3%A9
- rufus_foreman 6y agoI used Visual Age at work in the late 90s. The IDE itself was pretty decent but I still have nightmares about EJBs. The micro edition of VAJ (yes, that's what we called it) was itself written entirely in Java, and the team that did that took what they learned and built Eclipse.
- alblue 6y agoI interviewed Mike Milinkovic who led that team and who became Eclipse's executive director back in 2013, if you're interested in a trip down memory lane: https://www.infoq.com/interviews/Milinkovich-past-present-future-Eclipse/ https://www.infoq.com/interviews/Milinkovich-past-present-fu...