Corporate java developer tools

Asked by Laxman

I am working in a software company and new to Ubuntu(Linux). Can I do the following with Ubuntu.

Install Outlook or any other email programe which I can connect to our corporate exchage server.
I use java eclipse IDE a lot, how stable is eclipse on Ubuntu.
Generally what are the tools people use for Java development on Ubuntu (Linux), I heard lot of people use plain vi, it is so difficult, is it really true, some people use vi for java development.

Thanks,
Laxman

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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said :
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I'm no developer, so I can't help you out with those, but I can help you will your email program.
Evolution is installed by default into Ubuntu, but I can't say I really like it. You will find Mozilla Thunderbird available in the Add/Remove..., which is extremely easy and efficient to setup and use.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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I can answer only for...

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To use evolution with Exchange you must install evolution-exchange package

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo aptitude install evolution-exchange

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

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I use vi and is very powerful but isn't for casual user http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/vi_editor_ref.htm
by the way, there are a lot of editors on Ubuntu you can use.

Already installed are gedit and nano.
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Hope this helps

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Michael Fletcher (mikefletcher) said :
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Outlook will not run on Ubuntu. There is a Windows Emulator called Wine however its been reported to not work (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7533).

As others have mentioned by others Thunderbird and Evolution are options good for email. If you use Thunderbird you will have to enable IMAP on Microsoft Exchange. Thunderbird does not have Calendar integration that I know of but Evolution does.

Eclipse is stable on Ubuntu. I have used it a lot. You should install the SUN Java Environment. Netbeans almost certainly works as well.

You can use VI. If your looking for a basic editor you can try Applications, Accessories, Text Editor (which is called GEdit).

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Ludovic Claude (ludovicc) said :
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Laxman,

You can use Eclipse or Netbeans very easily on Ubuntu, both work quite well:

To install Eclipse:
sudo apt-get install eclipse

To install Netbeans (6.0)
sudo apt-get install netbeans

Personally, I like to use the latest version of my IDE, and the Ubuntu repository don't contain the latest version of Eclipse or Netbeans, so I've installed Netbeans 6.1 (which I recommand now after being a longtime Eclipse user, it's very good if you do lots of J2EE development). Go to netbeans.org, download the installation script, and it works very well.

Ludovic

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Ludovic Claude (ludovicc) said :
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Laxman,

You can use Eclipse or Netbeans very easily on Ubuntu, both work quite well:

To install Eclipse:
sudo apt-get install eclipse

To install Netbeans (6.0)
sudo apt-get install netbeans

Personally, I like to use the latest version of my IDE, and the Ubuntu repository don't contain the latest version of Eclipse or Netbeans, so I've installed Netbeans 6.1 (which I recommand now after being a longtime Eclipse user, it's very good if you do lots of J2EE development). Go to netbeans.org, download the installation script, and it works very well.

Ludovic

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