Re: [orca-list] Java development

["Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>]

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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