A good, accessible java compiler?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Thursday, 24-Jun-2010 11:57:00

Okay, I am posting this here because I don't want to go searching all over:
I would like to find an accessible java compiler. An ide would actually be better. Thanks.

Post 2 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Thursday, 24-Jun-2010 12:43:55

Eclipse has always been my Java IDE of choice. Very accessible by Jaws, was not as good with NVDA last time I knew.
Also there is a project called SodBeans to make an accessible IDE, it has been going on for quite a while now and could be at a useful stage.
Eclipse is www.eclipse.org I think ... it may need some tuning in the beginning and you may have to ask a few questions, but once you get it up and running it is a very neat environment. I liked it more than vs.net when I was coding.

Post 3 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Friday, 25-Jun-2010 14:02:01

ah great, thanks. I assume it comes with source code? It's been a while and I am a bit rusty so that would help.

Post 4 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Friday, 25-Jun-2010 16:36:49

Source code? Not really, but there are tons of code on the web. Find Sam´s teach yourself Java in 21 days and you should be up and running pretty fast.
Also just decide what kind of app you want and then find samples for it, uusing SWT you can write native O.S. accessible tings, Swing is Java Access Bridge stuff, the time I was working in Java I was writing a real time trading app, so used a lot of xml and instant messaging and database synching stuff, used Google extensively for examples.
Basically decide what you want to write and look for Google examploes to get you started.

Post 5 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Saturday, 26-Jun-2010 10:47:14

Thanks. I don't want to just copy and paste lol, just want to brush up on it. I am a bit rusty as I said.