I recently made the jump to JBuilder 2007. As a long time user of JBuilder (I started using JBuilder back with version 3) I have to start off saying that this version is quite a bit different from any other JBuilder. If you are an Eclipse user you will be quite comfortable with v2007, otherwise there is a hefty learning curve.
At the moment, I am actually having trouble with the registration process, so I have not yet tried out the borland specific features, I am just getting familiar with the Eclipse 3.2 functionality.
One thing I noticed right away is that I find the UI designer a big letdown from the old JBuilder.
I will post more here in a bit when I get further along in the process.
2 Comments
11 April, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Hi!
I have been also using JBuilder for a loooong time – since version 4.
I don’t understand why JBuilder 2007 does not parse old UI forms created in JBuilder 2006…
I have been developing a large GUI project using JBuilder X, 2005, 2006. When I switched to 2007, I realized that it can’t show my GUI dialogs in its UI designer.
Well, it shows something, but it is all broken, just like standard Eclipse would show.
It seems like there’s no backward compatibility in 2007 UI designer.
12 April, 2007 at 10:20 am
I think for simple swing code it does seem to work.
I have run into issues myself where inherited UI components do not work,
For example, when I made some of my own containers (such as a panel class with buttons, labels etc that I find myself reusing a lot) the visual designer in eclipse has a hard time.
Now it could be that there is something I did in JBuilder that it does not like, and if I redid it in eclipse it might behave better… I have not tried to correct the issues yet.
I am pondering moving to SWT instead anyway, so this may not end up being an issue in the long run.