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SteveJobs · Sep 12, 2003, 01:08 AM

Hi everyone,
I know this is a geek forum and this is not a geek question and yet it doesn't fit into any other forum and that's why I'm asking it right here.

We are studying Java at school now and while we are really going through the basics currently, it would be great to be able to repeat the stuff learned at school at home. That's why I'm in the need of JBuilder for Mac OS X. I looked around the net and found out that Borland once actually made an OS X version of some Jbuilder, 6 or 7, I think, but this is nowhere to download anymore. I have seen this hint over at MacOSXHints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30901190958614
but it doesn't work for me.

So, is there any way to get JBuilder these days for Mac OS X? I know I could be using the development environment in Project Builder, but I am too uneducated in programming to be able to work myself into it yet which is why I'd like to obtain a copfy of JBuilder. Please help out if you can.

Thanks for everything,
Steve

11011001 · Sep 12, 2003, 01:54 AM

Project builder is really simple, you enter your code in the main module and hit build and run, and that's it. (to build a new project, choose new in the file menu, choose java tool as your project type (this will be a program where you have to type things, probably what you are doing in an introductory java class, no pun intended

)) Give it a try. Seriously.

I don't know about JBuilder, but if it's built using Java you might be able to just download it and run it.

chris01 · Sep 12, 2003, 02:17 AM

I use Jbuilder 9 Developer (and Personal) on MacOS X 10.2.6 with the latest java update from apple. It works great, although the installation is a little bit tricky.

Be sure to read the borland.public.jbuilder.macintosh newsgroup available from the news server newsgroups.borland.com

There is a lot of usefull information.

Hope that helps,
Chris.

Evinyatar · Sep 12, 2003, 04:04 AM

http://www.alofmethbin.com/computing...der8_post1.txt

You don't have to transfer from another installation though. I managed to get the Windows installer to work under MacOS X. Just unzip the exe and have a look around in the manifest file. I don't remember the exact things I did.

Arkham_c · Sep 12, 2003, 12:38 PM

Another option is Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/). It's not JBuilder, but it's just as good (in some ways, better), it's free, and it runs on OSX.

SteveJobs · Sep 19, 2003, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by 11011001:
Project builder is really simple, you enter your code in the main module and hit build and run, and that's it. (to build a new project, choose new in the file menu, choose java tool as your project type (this will be a program where you have to type things, probably what you are doing in an introductory java class, no pun intended )) Give it a try. Seriously.

I don't know about JBuilder, but if it's built using Java you might be able to just download it and run it.

I toyed around with that during the past few days, and Project Builder is working very well in general. THere is one exception though. We do a lot of user interaction things, not only self-running apps, and I don't quite get how this works in PB. If I use a read-command and run my app, it just runs the app and waits for something to happen. If I type in something then and hit Return, nothing happens. Any ideas? We are working on commandline-apps, as I should note...

Steve

hayesk · Sep 19, 2003, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
Another option is Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/). It's not JBuilder, but it's just as good (in some ways, better), it's free, and it runs on OSX.

Eclipse doesn't have GUI designer, but the free Netbeans does.

http://www.netbeans.org

Sun's SunONE development studio is based on Netbeans - you can download the community edition of that for free as well.