[lagarto]

Currently I use NT at work, and Win98 at home . I'm replacing my home PC (AMD 330 Mhz) with a notebook, and thought I'd get an iBook (icebook), because I'm bored with Windows, want an environment that's a bit more imaginative, plus I want to do some media stuff with my DV camcorder, etc.

The development I'm doing at home is J2ME, and I want to use JBuilder (almost ready for MacOS X) as my IDE. Also it's likely Sun will port some of their tools (eg: Wireless Toolkit). I'm sure there will be some stuff I'll miss, but I'm confident I can get a core development environment up and running.

My question is, does this seem like a reasonable proposition?

Anybody else have a similar setup as their development environment?

Also, anybody got any ideas if it's worth waiting around until the end of next month see if the iBook gets upgraded, or shall I just go for some of the cheap deals around at the minute?

[davecom]

Originally posted by lagarto:
<STRONG>Currently I use NT at work, and Win98 at home . I'm replacing my home PC (AMD 330 Mhz) with a notebook, and thought I'd get an iBook (icebook), because I'm bored with Windows, want an environment that's a bit more imaginative, plus I want to do some media stuff with my DV camcorder, etc.

The development I'm doing at home is J2ME, and I want to use JBuilder (almost ready for MacOS X) as my IDE. Also it's likely Sun will port some of their tools (eg: Wireless Toolkit). I'm sure there will be some stuff I'll miss, but I'm confident I can get a core development environment up and running.

My question is, does this seem like a reasonable proposition?

Anybody else have a similar setup as their development environment?

Also, anybody got any ideas if it's worth waiting around until the end of next month see if the iBook gets upgraded, or shall I just go for some of the cheap deals around at the minute?</STRONG>

Talking about Sun tools, the Solaris version of Forte for Java works under OS X. Also, about the update, though there may be a price cut, I think it's unlikely Apple would introduce a new iBook in this poor economy. Although the Christmas buying season is coming up...

[AirSluf]

Forte 3.0 works kind of, the older 2.0 was fine. I had a problem this weekend with 3.0 and an infinite loop that ate about 85% of my DP500. I tried NetBeans 3.2.1 an was pleasantly surprised (the Open Source foundation of Forte). It's OS X support is MUCH better and it runs as advertised. I would expect the next JBuilder would work fine as well as long as it adheres to Beans as I have heard before.