FreeBSD Java™ Project: Development Tools

Included below are links to some tools that can be used on FreeBSD. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list.

• IDE´S
  • Visual Age for Java - Professional
    Joachim Jaeckel has put together a page on how to run Visual Age for Java Professional 3.0 (Linux) under -CURRENT: http://www.coffeebreak.de/freebsd/
  • JDE
    (X)Emacs mode for editing Java.
  • visaj
    A commercial visual application builder for Java.
  • jEdit
    jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java with Swing and allows for plug-ins. The author is also working on jEdit-IDE.
  • NetBeans
    New IDE written completely in java, different versions available, free and commercial ones. Now part Sun Microsystems.
  • JWS - Sun´s IDE
    Will not longer be maintained since Sun acquired NetBeans to use it as their IDE from now on.
  • FreeBuilder
    Open Source IDE, nice start but seems to be slowing down in progress lately, but don´t trust all the infos on the webpages, just check out the newest CVS-sources.
  • ElixirIDE
    An IDE that includes a debugger. Rated a JARS top 5%.
  • Eclipse
    An open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.
  • IDEA
    IDEA is a commercial Java IDE with extensive refactoring support.
• JDBC
  • Sun's list of JDBC Drivers
  • tjFM
    A Type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL™.
  • MySQL Connector/J
    A Type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL.
• UML
  • TogetherJ
    UML based development environment, written in Java. Different editions available, even a free one.
• Tools
  • Jikes
    Ultra fast java compiler from IBM (available as port).