CHAPTER 2The Integrated Development Environment Overview
Beware the ides of March.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Julius Caesar (I, ii, 18)
Integrated development environments (IDEs) are available for all mainstream development languages. IDEs allow developers to quickly produce massive amounts of code that is already debugged and optimized. The generated code is available to be modified in the IDE or used as is. In general terms, an integrated development environment is a cohesive set of programs that automate and centralize the lifecycle of program code design, creation, and deployment. As with all third-generation languages, you can create Java programs using a text editor, and there is no requirement to use an IDE for Java development. ...
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