On 24/08/2023 3:11 am, Kirk Wolf wrote:
To answer you question, for a real Java IDE, Java programmers generally believe that IntelliJ is the best and that's hard to argue with. I've used Eclipse for a really long time. If you are doing z/OS Java development, it's generally best to develop on your workstation and just deploy compiled jars to z/OS.
I use Eclipse, but it's mainly inertia preventing me from trying something else.
VS Code looks interesting because of the focus on supporting other z/OS languages, and the ability to edit datasets and files on the mainframe.
I have been playing with Java single file source code programs under Java 11 on z/OS, and that's a nice facility. It makes Java more like e.g. Rexx, in that you don't have to run a compile step. Does anyone know whether it's possible to set a classpath and have auto-complete and syntax checking using VS Code to edit a Java file on z/OS?
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