Borland JBuilder Pro 4.0

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Summary: JAVA - Language that will never die...
Review: If you are the kind a guy that likes challenges and off course, that like to learn, this is the right language for you. But don't expect to be easy either. It is a very complex language that will give thousends of different choices of how to used. For example: you can use it to make applets to a website on the internet, you can use to make objects to use in other programing languages and off course, you can use to make the best software ever.(If you have the pacience...)" And this software(Jbuider), offers you all kind of tools to make your life a lot easier, but don't expect that the software will do it everything for you, because it won't. You still need to have a big knowledge of the language.

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Summary: Very nice - but far too expensive
Review: This version of JBuilder is speedier than the JBuilder 3.x series and more responsive on lesser machines. Some touches of the IDE put it (in my opinion) at the top of its league. However, I can barely believe how expensive it is. The cheap foundation version can only be used with JDK v1.3. JDK switching is disabled unless you spend ... on the Professional version. I'm not sure what they're charging for since the core of the JDK is free. They are pricing themselves out of the contest, just like Borland did with Delphi. For much of my own usage, JBuilder becomes a glorified text editor with debugging capability. Nice as it may be, I may save ... and just use Forte!