I use Forte for Java with windoze and it's well slow. I use Forte mostly for the ntt docomo doja api extensions (mobile devices) and I recommend avoiding IDEs unless you're doing big projects - sure install it and try it but the speed penalty is big.
Unfortunately most of these big IDEs are slow whatever platform and Linux is no exception (although probably quicker than the other OS).
Automated garbage collection in Forte is the main culprit and it's best to do it yourself rather than leaving it up to the IDE which just does it whenever it feels like it
.
I'm looking for a small and quick IDE with minimal features for the write, compile, execute cycle. There's a few for windows but can't find any for linux. It may well be worth making one as the speed penalty from a command line or script is minimal for the java programs I've executed on linux (definitely quicker than the other OS).
This is how I configured my environment variables in
/etc/profile file :
Code:
if [ -z "$INPUTSRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
export CLASSPATH="./"
if [ -d /usr/jdk1.3 ]; then
PATH="$PATH:/usr/jdk1.3/bin"
fi
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE
INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
And that worked fine.
For the Forte IDE I have to specify where the jdk is which I just did with a script for flexibility. Something like :
Code:
./runide -javahome="/usr/jdk1.3"
and saved it in the
/usr/bin as
forte.
I'm having a couple of problems getting the compilers in Forte to work with my files because of file permissions but that's another problem ...
Hope this helped.
cubed