[Sussex] Java development IDE / compiler...

[Dominic Clay]

I'm not sure about jikes (I understand it is good, but I've never used it)  but if you download (any of) the sun jdks one part of this will produce a jar from the class files.
 
As an aside if you are a MS user too (heaven forbid of course!) you can use winzip to package up a series of java classes into a zip file and then rename it *.jar .  Ensure you include the manifest in the pre compressed directory structure and you will have a bonafide jar file. (I wouldn't be surprised if the same went for the tar utility too but I've never tried :) )
See you all tonight... 
Cheers,
 
Dominic

Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
Mark

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> OK people...
> 
> ... quick question, what's the best way to get started with Java
> development under Linux?
> 
> I have a working JVM... but what I need is a compiler to get from
> source code to a .jar file.
> 
> Can some one point me at a good URL for this? (or is there likely
> to be one already on my Debian PC without me knowing?)

Jikes is the standard Java compiler for Debian. But I normally 
download the JDK from sun and use that.

Steve

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