what is the best windows api java compiler out there? i really dont like the command line stuff cuz its hard to install and i dont want to fry my hard drive. any tips?

I use forte4java 4.0 (forte.sun.com) it is from sun and free (at least the ce) it is very nice and got a good gui, but needs alot of cpu time

Dominik

http://www.jcreator.com/ JCreator is pretty good but it is only shareware. Do a search on www.cnet.com and u can find some more java compilers.


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Pretty much all compilers are command-line compilers, particularly for Java, and I can''t imagine how they could "fry" your hard drive. However, if you want a nice IDE, then yes Forte is good or NetBeans (www.netbeans.org). Both need the command-line SDK installed, but they call the compiler commands for you. Honestly though, I don''t see how you can ever consider yourself a serious programmer if you are afraid to learn the use some simple command-line tools.