Language Support | |||||
Java 1.4 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Java 5.0 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
JSP | Yes | No | No | Yes | No2 |
C# 1.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
C# 2.0 | Yes | Not yet1 | Not yet1 | No | No |
J# 1.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | No | No |
J# 2.0 | Yes | Not yet1 | Not yet1,3 | No | No |
Visual Basic .NET | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | No | No |
Platform Support | |||||
Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Linux | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Mac OS X | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Java | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft .NET | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Mono | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Code analysis & Code editor | |||||
Multi-language core engine | Yes | No | No | No | No |
On-the-fly error checking | Yes | Only for VB.net | Only for C#, VB.net3 | Only for Java, JSP | Only for Java |
Project-wide on-the-fly checking / incremental compilation | Yes | Only for VB.net | Only for VB.net3 | No | Only for Java |
Checking speed | Fast | Medium | Poor | Poor | Medium |
Refactoring | Yes | Not yet1 | Only for C# | Yes | Yes |
Cross-language refactoring | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Organize imports/usings | Yes | No | Only for C# | Yes | Yes |
Code generation | Yes | No | Only for C# | Yes | Yes |
Goto class/symbol by name | Yes | Not yet1 | Only for C# | Yes | Yes |
Find usages | Yes | Not yet1 | Only for C# | Yes | Yes |
Go to overriding/overridden method | Yes | No | Only for C# | Yes | Yes |
Version control support | |||||
Unified version control system support | Yes | No | No | No | No |
CVS support | Yes | No2 | No2 | Yes | Yes |
Bitkeeper support | Yes | No2 | No2 | No | No |
Perforce support | Yes | No2 | No2 | Yes | No |
Subversion support | Yes | No2 | No2 | Yes1 | No2 |
Visual SourceSafe support | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | Yes | No2 |
On-the-fly diff display | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
On-the-fly annotation view | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Debugging | |||||
Java debugger with Step back | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Conventional .NET debugger | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | No | No |
JSP debugging | Yes | No | No | Yes | No2 |
Experimental Mono debugger | Yes | No | No | No | No |
GUI designer | |||||
Integrated GUI designer | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | Yes | Yes |
AWT | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Swing | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Windows Forms | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | No | No |
GTK# | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Unit testing | |||||
JUnit support | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
NUnit support | Yes | No | Not yet1 | No | No |
Teamsystem support | Yes | Not yet1 | Not yet1 | No | No |
Compared versions: X-develop 1.2, VS.NET 2003/2005 1, Resharper 1.5, IDEA 5.0, Eclipse 3.1
1 available in a beta/preview version
2 supported by third-party plugin
3 does not add anything to VS.net functionality
首先,所有的功能在X-develop一列中的支持结果都是Yes。这也算是理所当然的事情,人家怎么可能搬起石头砸自己的脚~但是,我总是觉得假假的, 呵呵。X-develop主要标榜的是自己的多语言支持性和多平台支持性,所以把Language Support和Platform Support放在了最前面,而且极度突出了自己在这两方面的优势。看着Eclipse一列那么多的No,我忍不住笑了出来,虽然在表格最后面的附注里面 有说supported by third-party plugin,但这多少有点儿愚民的感觉。
在Code analysis & Code editor一组中,吸引我的是Checking speed,Eclipse 是Medium,其他VS.NET + Resharper和IDEA都被无情的打上了Poor。Version control support是最搞笑的一组,X-develop看上去有巨大的优势,但是我很怀疑它所额外支持的东西是否比较有用。GUI designer和Unit testing也没有什么出奇的地方,X-develop支持那么多是因为它支持多语言,这是很正常的,不支持才不正常。
最让我眼前一亮的是Debugging中的Java debugger with Step back!这个可真的是个好东西,而且我也从来没在其他IDE中发现过。它强大的地方在于,在debug的时候可以让程序倒退着运行,这对观察程序行为, 调试很复杂或tricky的bug是很有用的。
看过之后总体感觉下来,X-develop面向的用户是没有深入使用其他主流IDE的开发人员。我个人是不会因为这些比较而改变我的IDE使用习惯,但是 在debug的时候,如果真的有很难调试的bug,我也许会到X-develop下面用Step back试试。另外再提一下,X-develop是要钱的,而且我还没找到crak... :(