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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Cardiff, Wales
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Does anyone have any ideas when or if JBuilder is going to arrive?
There was a press release (before even PB I think) which said that it would be released soon after OS X in early 2001. But I haven't heard anything since. I hope that it doesn't turn out to be vapourware.
I'm using JBuilder on Windows and it's a great Java IDE, not to mention the basic package being free.
Chris
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Plymouth, MI 48170
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I sent an email to Borland asking the same thing. I got this back...
Thank you for sending us your message.
It is estimated that we will be releasing a special JBuilder for Mac OS X this quarter (late May). We will be releasing a Professional and a Foundation Verison.
JBuilder 4 will run on Mac OS X, however I would not suggest that you install it as is because there are some issues within OS X (Apple will be releasing a patch for this, hopefully soon).
Best Regards
Bill
Borland Customer Service
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Lodi, NJ, USA
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Haven't heard anything... but I was happy to see Sun's Forte works great at least.
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charly
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You may want to use BlueJ in the meantime. BlueJ is free,
and it runs on MacOS X:
http://www.bluej.org 
ck
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Cardiff, Wales
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That's all excellent news!
BlueJ looks like exactly the kind of IDE I'd use - more so than JBuilder, really. They're right when they say that IDEs are often overkill and too GUI focused. That's why I like Codewarrior so much - it does nothing to get in the way of your coding. The plain Java version has become quite expensive, however - more than I think it's worth.
A piece of news that would please me, is if Apple were to improve the Applet Launcher - it's horrible!
Chris
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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I haven't seen BlueJ but I really do like Forte (free from Sun) and the Solaris version, Community Edition installed just fine under X. There are some nice features Sun put in as well for things like JavaDoc generation and error correction that I know jBuilder on Win does not have. It also let me almost entirely ignore the classpath problems with its GUI driven file mounting (even seamless no extra effort .jar file examination)
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