A comparison of 4 Java IDEs, from Borland, IBM, Oracle and Sun ranks them as follows:

• Borland JBuilder 2005 Enterprise tops with – ( 8.5 / 10 )
  
• IBM Rational Software Architect 6.0 – (  8.3 / 10 )
  
• Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 – ( 8 / 10 )
  
• Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 -  ( 7.4 / 10 )

The article evaluates the four IDEs based on Features, Ease-of-use, Integration,  Performance and  Value.

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>> Four Java IDEs duke it out

Written by Content Team on March 28, 2005      Print