Lately I hear a lot of Java bashing from a very vocal part of the Linux community. I do a lot of Java, I use Linux on my main laptop and I like this just fine. I use daily freemind (Java mindmapper) and openoffice (which is Java enabled). I was doing this for the past years since Windows XP ate my C-drive for the N-th time (and now it did the same on my gaming rig at home, grrr... ).
I keep a 'Tools' directory in my home drive and place there the Java tools and libraries I get from the net. Creating a little bash script in *\~/bin* which calls the startup script from the java tools almost always does the right thing, so I was contented. Well, I need to do some LDAP hacking. Last times I did that in perl, python, ruby and Java so it was groovy's turn.
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Hmmmmm....... This is better.... There is some refence to ant.. Yep, that too... Jedit, jython, jruby, scala (I did not do LDAP with scala yet...) follow in quick succession... Well, time to fire up synaptic and search for Java. A seemingly endless list of packages appears. App Servers :
* glassfish
* tomcat (actually I knew that from before)
* jetty
Dev Tools:
* Emma
* Junit
* Junit4
* JMock
* ...
A bunch of the commons libraries, ... Half a dozen of jdk's. Java bindings for all the windowing toolkits out there : Gtk, Qt-jambi, ... I also finally found the jdbc driver for postgresql which I was frantically looking for a couple of weeks ago and finally downloaded from the postgres site. There is an old eclipse version, but actually this is a tool which I prefer to live in my Tools directory for updating the plugins. The only thing I did not find was findbugs. Well there is probably a lot more missing, but my inspiration dried up. I could clear out half of my tools folders because they are replaced with ubuntu version. I am now even more contented than I was. I just love to type 'apt-get install <something>' when I want something, and now I found more of what I want.
