Eclipse vs. Netbeans. Netbeans is winning me over almost at first glance.

[Thomas G. Marshall]

I'm having a struggle with the latest moving target of Eclipse. I've been
trying to mimic my development environment from back when I was using visual
cafe (from roughly 96 to 02). I want all source, from any and all projects
I choose regardless of what is my "current" project to come from

C:\Devel\Source\...

And I want all .class files to land in

C:\Devel\Classes\...

This will allow me to edit source files that would normally not be in my
immediate project. And have any changes to, say, a utility of mine that I
alter link directly into other projects the moment I open that project.

I try to set this up using "linked resources". I've been able to get this
to work in 3.1, but this new rev seems to have changed everything yet again
and I cannot get the source directory entered without compiling everything
in it *no matter how many folders I exclude*. Huh? Are you saying "huh?"
too? If you have an idea about how to set this up with precise steps, I'd
love to hear it.

Eclipse is a roaring PITA.

So I tried installing NetBeans 5.5 just for yucks. Everything seems so much
cleaner. I wanted to put in source directories from anywhere: wham. Now
I'm trying to figure out how to have the .classes all go to
c:\Devel\Classes, but I'm not as worred about that.



--
Very old classic: Three men check into a hotel: the
room is $25 for the night. They each hand the bellhop
$10 and ask him to bring back the change. When the
bellhop returns with the $5 change, the men figure it's
easiest math to give $1 back to each of them and leave
$2 to the bellhop as a tip. Now each man paid $9 for
a total of $27. The bellhop got $2, that makes $29.
What happened to the last $1?
Answer (rot13): Unir gb or pnershy ubj lbh nqq guvf hc.
Gur guerr zra cnvq $27 gbgny, BHG BS JUVPU $2 jrag gb
gur oryyubc.

 

[Manish Pandit]

Hi,

If configuring the classes folder is something you are looking for, you
can do that in eclipse by going to Project-> Properties -> Java Build
Path and at the bottom you should see default output folder and an
option to change it via a browse button.

-cheers,
Manish

PS: Liked that little brain-teaser in your signature.

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

Manish Pandit said something like:

Hi,

If configuring the classes folder is something you are looking for, you
can do that in eclipse by going to Project-> Properties -> Java Build
Path and at the bottom you should see default output folder and an
option to change it via a browse button.

No, I've got that working ok. In fact, both Source and Classes are entered
properly, it's just that even though I exclude a myriad of source folders
from the build path (say, from the packages that are not yet complete) they
all are attempted to be compiled.

I'm half wondering if this is simply a bug in 3.3M2.

PS: Liked that little brain-teaser in your signature.

Thanks. It's a very good lesson to learn.