Wondering what early Java IDE/IDEs you can recommend from 2002 onwards. I have some ancient testing I have to do.
It kind of looks like this: Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans (this is unsorted set 
).
Netbeans is the oldest one. Eclipse and IntelliJ were both initially released 2001.
In my high school days I remember using Eclipse way back in 2008. Thought it was okay I guess, don’t remember too much though. I think I just remember liking it better than NetBeans.
Anything still available for download?
Eclipse is available here back to the Europa (2006) release.
Since it is open source and all you could probably build an older version yourself if you really need to. Since it is a plugin-architecture you maybe can just get away with using some plugins in an ancient version, if required.
link broke
might try blueJ, maybe…
also netbeans keeps some of the older downloads available
https://netbeans.apache.org/download/archive/index.html
edit: here’s bluej
Managed to find some BlueJ versions. They’re there, but they’re not as friendly as the other versions to get. You have to navigate to them via URL by changing the version you want to download. They’re there, they’re just not as obvious to find/get.
https://bluej.org/download/files/bluej-XYZ.msi
Change XYZ on the URL/link above to the version you want/need to get (without the .'s) and it should work from there.
How do I know which package to choose?
Nevermind. It looks like all SR2
M is milestone, RC is release candidate, R is release, SR are service releases. SRx-RCs are relase candidates for the service release.
M, RC are prerelease versions. R is the release version, service relases are updated release versions.
This nomenclature is sometimes used by other software vendors / projects
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Thank you!
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You can still get IntelliJ 11 on Jetbrains’ site: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/other.html
It can probably run Java 1.3 and 4.
Sick!
Found some download links for Eclipse V4.0 and earlier.