JBuilder

[Robby Tanner]

Is there a JBuilder for Linux as well? Does anyone have comments regarding
using JBuilder for X-platform development?

Regards,
Rob

[Lori M Olson [TeamB]]

Post by Robby Tanner
Is there a JBuilder for Linux as well? Does anyone have comments regarding
using JBuilder for X-platform development?
Regards,
Rob

Yes. JBuilder is only "officially" supported on a limited number of
Linux platforms, but most people are able to get it working on whatever
distro they want, as long as a compatible JDK is available.
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Regards,

Lori Olson [TeamB]

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Post by Robby Tanner
Is there a JBuilder for Linux as well? Does anyone have comments
regarding using JBuilder for X-platform development?
Regards,
Rob

Java was made for XPlatform development. Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac, AS400,
and OS390, no problem. As long as JVM is there, you can use Java and
JBuilder to develop a Java application for it.

However, when developing for Unix platforms, there are some caveats. First,
if you are developing a GUI application, XWindows must be installed on the
target platform. In addition, you must ensure that the jvm you are
targeting, has the appropriate .so libraries that java is expecting to be
on that platform, especially for Swing based apps.

J2ME can also support PDA and Cell Phone type applications, but you need to
know what capabilities and what extensions are on the targeted device in
addition to the J2ME version.

JBuilder, as Lori stated, is supported officially on a small number of
Linuxes, but Ihave had no problems on Suse, Fedora, or most Debian distros,
running JBuilder, if all of the other scenarios as mentioned above, are
met.