Re: [orca-list] Java development

[Josà Vilmar EstÃcio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

I agree with michael and Krishnakant.
In general eclipse works very well with orca.

On 12/13/2011 04:42 PM, hackingKK wrote:
> I agree with Michael,
> I have been using eclipse 3.7 (indigo ) and ever since the bugs were
> sorted out, I have never went away from it.
> It just does all the professional work I need to do.
> I write a lot of python code and a bit of Java as well.
> Eclipse is just amaising and coding is bliss.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
> On 13/12/11 23:51, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I would advise using eclipse as an IDE for Java (well may be other
> > things as well as it does other programming languages, may need plugins).
> >
> > The situation with netbeans, in my experience (within a year for
> > Linux/Mac/NVDA on windows, further back in time for other windows
> > screen readers), it just is not really a practical option. The best
> > results I got was a number of years ago testing netbeans with Dolphin
> > hal, but you wanted to stay clear of code completion as that killed hal.
> >
> > Anyway this is the orca list, so how does it go with orca? When I
> > tested it last (within the last year, however results match with
> > previous experiences) while orca may see certain things in the UI, the
> > performance was so slow that it was not practical to use. By it being
> > slow I mean I could be waiting for over a minute to access a menu. I
> > was therefore due to the slowness unable to really test many features
> > and so could not say whether you could actually use it even if it
> > performed at a speed that would be acceptable. One thing which I don't
> > know much about but may help is sodbeans http://sodbeans.sf.net
> >
> > Compare this to eclipse, eclipse performs comparably to other GTK
> > applications, you can certainly do most of the important things, there
> > may be a few specific places where orca may not be able to access it
> > (eg. the junit plugin for eclipse will show a green or red bar next to
> > each test depending on whether it passed or not, orca will not
> > announce these bars, but you might be able to work out from number of
> > tests and any errors, or even you could just use the standard text
> > test runner of junit and view the output in the eclipse console view).
> >
> > A couple of other things regarding eclipse. In the past eclipse have
> > normally been fairly responsive to fixing bugs relating to
> > accessibility. Also I think there may be others on the list who
> > successfully use eclipse with orca.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward"
> > <thomasward1978 gmail com>
> > To: "Andy B" <sonfire11 gmail com>
> > Cc: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Java development
> >
> >
> > > Hi Andy,
> > >
> > > Ah, I see. Well, I don't have any experience with Netbeans as an IDE
> > > as I always have used Eclipse. However, I can say Eclipse is a decent
> > > and fairly accessible IDE for Java development on Linux with Orca.
> > >
> > > On 12/11/11, Andy B <sonfire11 gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Part of the reason I wanted to know is because I was looking into using
> > > > netbeans as an IDE, unless everyone recommends eclipse instead?
> >
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