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Some people prefer glitz. The shiny sparkle has always attracted the human eye. Sometimes that sparkle is a real gem, a treasure; sometimes it's only a gum wrapper on the sidewalk. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) add glitz to Java development. At their most basic, they combine (integrate) an editing environment with a compiler. This gives you
If those were all they gave you, IDEs would be, in our opinion, leaning toward "gum wrapper." But a good IDE can be more than that. It can be extended to integrate many different tools, including:
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