I'm sitting next to Corky Cartwright at the Microsoft Faculty Summit 2003. We began discussing Java development environments. I mentioned Eclipse, one of my favorite environments. He's running a group at Rice that does a competitor: DrJava.
One of the most interesting aspects of this is that they are using the full range of Extreme Programming techniques for this project - all the way to pair programming. They use JUnit, Ant, and all the rest of the tools and techniques. One of their advantages is that their customer base (students learning Java) is local. Here's a blurb from the SourceForge site:
DrJava is a lightweight development environment for writing Java programs. It is designed primarily for students, providing an intuitive interface and the ability to interactively evaluate Java code. It also includes powerful features for more advanced users. DrJava is available for free under an open source license (GPL), and it is under active development by the JavaPLT group at Rice University.
Posted by Dean at July 28, 2003 02:09 PM | TrackBack