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FreeBSD Java® Project: Development Tools

Included below are links to some tools that can be used on FreeBSD. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list.

IDE´S
- Visual Age for Java - Professional
  Joachim Jaeckel has put together a page on how to run Visual Age for Java Professional 3.0 (Linux) under -CURRENT: http://www.coffeebreak.de/freebsd/
- JDE
  (X)Emacs mode for editing Java.
- visaj
  A commercial visual application builder for Java.
- jEdit
  jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java with Swing and allows for plug-ins. The author is also working on jEdit-IDE.
- NetBeans
  New IDE written completely in java, different versions available, free and commercial ones. Now part Sun Microsystems.
- JWS - Sun´s IDE
  Will not longer be maintained since Sun acquired NetBeans to use it as their IDE from now on.
- FreeBuilder
  Open Source IDE, nice start but seems to be slowing down in progress lately, but don´t trust all the infos on the webpages, just check out the newest CVS-sources.
- ElixirIDE
  An IDE that includes a debugger. Rated a JARS top 5%.
- Eclipse
  An open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.
- IDEA
  IDEA is a commercial Java IDE with extensive refactoring support.
JDBC
- Sun's list of JDBC Drivers
- tjFM
  A Type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL™.
- MySQL Connector/J
  A Type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL.
UML
- TogetherJ
  UML based development environment, written in Java. Different editions available, even a free one.
Tools
- Jikes
  Ultra fast java compiler from IBM (available as port).