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

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