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	<P> Included below are links to some tools that can be used on FreeBSD.  It is not intended to be a comprehensive list.

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      <li> IDE&acute;S
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	  <li><a href="http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/zones/vajava/">Visual Age for Java - 
	    Professional</a> <br>
<a href="mailto:Joachim.Jaeckel@coffeebreak.de">Joachim Jaeckel</a> has put together a page on how to run Visual Age for Java Professional 3.0 (Linux) under -CURRENT: <a href="http://www.coffeebreak.de/freebsd/">http://www.coffeebreak.de/freebsd/</a>
	  <li><a href="http://jdee.sunsite.dk/">JDE</a> <br>
	    (X)Emacs mode for editing Java.
	  <li><a href="http://www.ist.co.uk/visaj/index.html">visaj</a> <br>
	    A commercial visual application builder for Java. 
	  <li><a href="http://www.jedit.org">jEdit</a> <br>
	  jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java with Swing and allows for plug-ins.  The author is also working on <A HREF="http://www.gjt.org/~sp/jedit-ide/">jEdit-IDE</A>.
	  <li> <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/">NetBeans</a><br>
	    New IDE written completely in java, different versions available,
	    free and commercial ones. Now part Sun Microsystems.
	  <li> JWS - Sun&acute;s IDE <br>
	    Will not longer be maintained since Sun acquired NetBeans
	    to use it as their IDE from now on.
	  <li><a href="http://www.freebuilder.org">FreeBuilder</a><br>
	    Open Source IDE, nice start but seems to be slowing down
	      in progress lately, but don&acute;t trust all the infos on the
	    webpages, just check out the newest CVS-sources.
	  <li><a href="http://www.elixirtech.com/ElixirIDE/index.html">ElixirIDE</a> <br>
	  An IDE that includes a debugger.  Rated a JARS top 5%.
	  <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a><br>
	    An open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.
	  <li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea">IDEA</a><br>
	    IDEA is a commercial Java IDE with extensive refactoring support.
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      <li> JDBC
	<ul>
	  <li><a href="http://industry.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/drivers">Sun's list of JDBC Drivers</a>
	  <li><a href="http://www.voicenet.com/~zellert/tjFM/"></a>tjFM<br>
	  A Type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL&trade;.
	  <li><a href="http://www.mysql.com/products/connector-j/index.html">MySQL Connector/J</a><br>
	  A Type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL.
	</ul>
      <li> UML
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	  <li><a href="http://www.togethersoft.com/together/togetherJ.html">TogetherJ</a> <br>
	    UML based development environment, written in Java. Different editions
	    available, even a free one.
	</ul>
      <li> Tools
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	  <li><a href="http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jikes/">Jikes</a> <br>
	    Ultra fast java compiler from IBM (available as port).
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