I have successfully used many IDEs on OS X in the past … Eclipse, Intellij IDEA, JBuilder … What I have cared about recently is support for building Web Applications and the ability to have updates immediately deployed to a running Tomcat server. Here is what I have found:
- Eclipse is always a good choice because it’s free and plug-ins are plentiful, and they recently updated the version (3.2.1) for OS X with support for J2EE and more. It’s a simple download, drag and drop to Application directory (or wherever you prefer)
- Intellij IDEA is very similar to Eclipse, and will deploy Web Apps in real-time, but it will cost you $. The application is very nice looking and runs very well on OS X. It’s a simple download, drag and drop to Application directory (or wherever you prefer)
- JBuilder has a free Foundation edition, but I couldn’t get it to install and I get the feeling they aren’t that serious about updating this version for OS X … and it’s a pretty painful registration process on their website to get it (many required fields … bugger!)
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