Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition

I'm partisan. I'm opposed to Java IDEs. I design and write Java applications and applets for a living so I need to do so efficiently; I've used a number of IDEs and have yet to find any which make life easier. Moreover, I have yet to find a visual development tool which creates Java GUIs either easily or without errors. So maybe I was destined to dislike Visual J++. The one area where I concede that IDEs are of use is that of rapid development, especially prototyping and/or applet development (the latter due to the more complex issues of debugging, and the fact that bloating the code with trace is not acceptable). However, VJ++ fails to build signed ...  Read the complete review

The theory behind this program is good , Visual Basic and Visual C++ are by far the best programming tools there is thats what makes this product strange. In my opinion the Java language doesnt need a product as complex as this , what you need is a text editor , a compiler and an interpreter. An example of stupid design in this program is when I start up I am greeted with options on which type of Java application/applet I want to develop , great but then when you finish this step you are presented with numerous toolbars and a gap in the screen in the middle so you can see your desktop and no file to start entering code into , I mean come on Java is supposed to be easy so ...  Read the complete review

Quite what the point is in Visual J++ I do not really know. In my honest opinion, Visual J++ is effectively Java for Windows. When I say Windows I mean Windows, forget any Unix, Linux or Macintosh development here. When Visual J++ was first released ( Version 1.0 ) it was an implementation of Java and conformed to the Java 1.0 released by Sun. Since then Visual J++ has diverged from the Sun specification to become a language that supports the Windows operating system with COM, ActiveX and everything else that goes with it but very little else. It is true that Visual J++ is fine for integrating with Microsoft IIS and ASP but these are ...  Read the complete review