Low resources IDE

[Moonbuzz]

Hello all,

I'm creating a laptop as a development computer, and the biggest issue with the hardware is the (relatively) low resources of the hardware (Pen III, 64 MB RAM), which is insufficient for anything contemporary.
Up until now I needed nothing more than vim for my works, but I've started working with Java, and all the packages and classes give me a headache. Question is, whether there is a good, or fairly good IDE that I can work with on that system (Eclipse is out of the question, and so does NetBeans).

[RoccoD]

Hi,

maybe use emacs. But if that's not your idea of fun, try JEdit.
I know, it is not an IDE, but I think with 64 MB no java IDE will run satisfactory.

[jvictor]

Try scite ,not comparable to eclipse though, has syntax highlighting etc. guess gedit too has such stuff

[Moonbuzz]

Maybe I need to explain a bit, I really don't care for the "IDE" part, what I basically need is class recognition/code completion features. I can do without most of the other functions, but having to scrutinise the API for every other line drives me nuts. If I'm implementing 2-3 interfaces, I really would appreciate if there was some sort of indication which of the 10 methods I've not overwritten yet. And when I want to use one of the 25 methods available for some class, I could use some code-completion. Maybe I'm just lazy, but there *are* about 60,000 classes/methods/interfaces/exceptions in Java...

And it needs to be able to run on 64 MB RAM. I'm using Damn Small Linux, so no problem there.

[jvictor]

Ya i do understand ur situation well.. :-) unfortunately i havent seen some lightweight ide with the requirements you have mentioned here.. Did u try jEdit ?

[Moonbuzz]

Thanks, I'll try JEdit, emacs and Scite today, any other stuff?

[jvictor]

Nothing that i know :) gedit must b there in most distros runnign gnome . I use eclipse , and i love the IDE :-)

[Moonbuzz]

I use it too, exclusively, but no way it'll run on my laptop...

I've tried jde for emacs, anyone knows how to set it to find the api?

[flower]

eclipse is what you're asking about , but frankly I have no idea how it would work on you laptop ...