Java Development on Mac OS X 1 Scenario To develop an open source, graphical database front-end for Mac OS X using Java 2 Main Soft Goal To select a powerful, easy to use and to learn, free IDE tool to improve our productivity 3 Minimal Requirements ‣ Support the Java 2 SE platform ‣ Run on Mac OS X Tiger ‣ Run on Intel-based Macs ‣ English user interface and documentation ‣ Free and generally available 4 Evaluation Criteria • Interface Builder • Code Formatting • Version Control • Code Completion • Debugging • Code Generation • Unit Testing • Code Refactoring • Documentation • Package Mgt. 5 Borland Turbo Pascal & Microsoft QuickBASIC 6 Eclipse & Xcode 7 Eclipse “An open source, platform-independent, development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across its entire lifecycle.” Much more than a Java IDE 8 Xcode “All the tools you need to create, debug, and optimize your application: a graphical workbench with integrated syntax- highlighting text editor, a debugger, and the powerful GCC compiler.” The ease of Mac OS, the power of UNIX 9 Side-by-Side 10 Eclipse Xcode Developer Community Apple, Inc. License Open Proprietary Price Free (as in Speech) Free (as in Beer) Mac OS X, Linux, Platforms Mac OS X Solaris, Windows... Main Language Java Objective-C Other Supported C, C++, Perl, PHP, Java, C, C++, Languages Python, Ruby... AppleScript 11 Eclipse Xcode Fulfill Minimal Requirements ✔ Yes ✔ Yes Interface Builder ✔ Yes * ✔ Yes Version Control CVS, SVN * CVS, SVN, Perforce Debugger ✔ Yes ✔ Yes Unit Testing ✔ Yes ✔ Yes Eats Its Own Dog Food ✔ Yes ✔ Yes * via plug-in 12 The Good The Bad The Ugly 13 Sample Simple Interface Xcode: Interface Builder Eclipse: Visual Editor 14 Code Folding 15 Split View 16 Code Formatting Profiles 17 Method Navigator 18 Warnings & Errors 19 The Bad 20 Platform-independence Write once Debug everywhere 21 The Ugly 22 Spell Checking 23 Conclusions and Recommendation 24 No single tool is perfect One is more integrated with the operating system The other offers better support for the language 25 Which one is most powerful, easy to use and to learn? Which one would improve our productivity the most? 26 ? 27 Eclipse is a better tool for doing Java programming in general It really eclipses Xcode 28 But... 29 Xcode Interface Builder is much better than Eclipse Visual Editor (way better...) 30 So... 31 Our recommendation: Use Xcode Interface Builder to sketch the user interface Do all other development tasks using Eclipse 32 References http://java.sun.com Java http://developer.apple.com/java http://www.apple.com/macosx Mac OS X http://developer.apple.com/macosx http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode Xcode http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse http://developer.apple.com/tools/eclipse.html Borland Turbo Pascal http://dn.codegear.com/museum Microsoft QuickBASIC http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q39730 33 Questions 34 Thank you for not having questions 35.