Top free IDE for Java software development

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Top Free IDE for
Java Software Development
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IDE

• IDE Integrated Development Environment
• Variety of different IDE's are available. You can
  select as per requirement of the project.
• These IDEs offer a variety of features, like

• Building applications
• TestNG,
• Debugging,
• Code inspections,
• Code assistance

• JUNIT testing
• Multiple refactoring
• Visual GUI builder
• Maven build tools and more

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List of IDEs

• Android Studio
• Eclipse
• NetBeans
• Jdeveloper
• DrJava
• jGRASP

• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
• Enide Studio 2014
• BlueJ
• jEdit

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Android Studio

• Official IDE for Android application development

• Built on IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
• Flexible Gradle-based build system
• Rich layout editor with support for theme editing
• Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform,
  making it easy to integrate Google Cloud
  Messaging and App Engine.

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Android Studio

• Android Studio is freely available under the
  Apache License 2.0

• It is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X
  and Linux and replaced Eclipse as Googles
  primary IDE for native Android application
  development.

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Eclipse

• In the context of computing, Eclipse is an IDE
  for developing applications using the Java
  programming language other programming languages

• This platform provides the foundation for the
  Eclipse IDE is composed of plug-ins and is
  designed to be extensible using additional
  plug-ins.

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Eclipse

• Developed using Java, the Eclipse platform can be
  used to develop rich client applications,
  integrated development environments and other
  tools.

• Eclipse can be used as an IDE for any programming
  language for which a plug-in is available.

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Eclipse

• Eclipse platform and other plug-ins from the
  Eclipse foundation is released under the Eclipse
  Public License (EPL).

• EPL ensures that Eclipse is free to download and
  install. It also allows Eclipse to be modified
  and distributed.

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NetBeans

• NetBeans is an open source IDE written in Java
  and is one of IDR Solutions favourite IDEs for
  Java Coding.

• NetBeans is modular in design meaning it can be
  extended by third party developers who can create
  plugins for NetBeans to enhance functionality

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NetBeans

• NetBeans is cross-platform and runs on Microsoft
  Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and other
  platforms supporting a compatible JVM.

• NetBeans can also be used for working with Cloud
  applications, this useful guide covers how to use
  the NetBeans IDE with the Google App Engine.

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JDeveloper

• Anthore IDE developed by Oracle.
• It is used to build service oriented applications
  using the latest industry standards for Java,
  XML, Web services SQL

• JDeveloper comes in 3 flavors which include the
  Java Edition, J2EE edition and Studio Edition
  which comes with a whole different set of features

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JDeveloper

• This IDE supports the complete development life
  cycle with integrated features
• gtgt Modeling
• gtgt Coding
• gtgt Debugging
• gtgt Testing
• gtgt Profiling
• gtgt Tuning
• gtgt Deploying

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DrJava

• DrJava is a lightweight development environment
  for writing Java programs.

• It is designed primarily for students, providing
  an intuitive interface and the ability to
  interactively evaluate Java code.
• It also includes powerful features for more
  advanced users

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jGRASP

• jGRASP is a lightweight development environment,
  created specifically to provide automatic
  generation of software visualizations to improve
  the comprehensibility of software

• jGRASP is implemented in Java, and runs on all
  platforms with a Java Virtual Machine (Java
  version 1.5 or higher).

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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is a free Java
  IDE mainly used for
• gtgt Android app development,
• gtgt Scala,
• gtgt Groovy,
• gtgt Java SE
• gtgt Java software development

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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

• It is lightweight in design and comes with useful
  features like
• gtgt Junit testing
• gtgt TestNG
• gtgt Code inspections completion
• gtgt Support for multiple refactoring,
• gtgt Maven build tools,
• gtgt Ant,
• gtgt Visual GUI builder code editor for XML and
  Java

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Enide Studio 2014

• Enide Studio 2014 initially (version
  0.11-preview) was released as stand-alone product
  for all Operating systems.

• However later changes saw it develop in a Tool
  Suite for Node.js, JavaScript Java Development
  which is available from the Eclipse plugin store
  and from the main website.

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Enide Studio 2014

• Enide Studio 2014 Plugin includes
• - Nodeclipse 0.17,
• - Chrome Development Tools,
• - AngularJS for Eclipse,
• - TernIDE,
• - Eclipse WTP WebResources,
• - TCF Terminals,
• - MarkDown (.md) Editor,
• - Various themes
• - Nodeclipse EditBox,

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Enide Studio 2014

• GitHub Flavored Markdown Viewer,
• - RestClient Tool
• - StartExplorer,
• - Git Add-on,
• - Maven,
• - Gradle integration,
• - Minimalist Jade Editor more..

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BlueJ

• It has been mainly developed for educational
  purposes, but also suitable for those who wish to
  do small-scale Java web development.

• The main screen graphically shows the class
  structure of an application under development and
  objects can be interactively created and tested.

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BlueJ

• BlueJ is mainly developed for the teaching of the
  object-oriented programming, and its design
  differs from other development environments as a
  result.

• This interaction facility, combined with a clean,
  simple user interface, allows easy
  experimentation with objects under development
  and this allows beginners to get started more
  quickly, and without being overwhelmed.

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jEdit

• BajEdit is a text editor with hundreds (counting
  the time developing plugins) of person-years of
  development behind it.

• Most people argue where jEdit beats many
  expensive development tools for features and ease
  of use is that the jEdit core, comes with a
  built-in macro language an extensible plugin
  architecture.

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jEdit

• Some of jEdit's features include
• - Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2,
  Unix, VMS and Windows.
• - Built-in macro language extensible plugin
  architecture. Hundreds of macros and plugins
  available.
• - Plugins can be downloaded and installed from
  within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.

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jEdit

• - Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more
  than 200 languages.
• - Supports a large number of character encodings
  including UTF8 and Unicode.

• - Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• - Word wrap.
• - Highly configurable and customizable

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