Lóránd Somogyi

After a lot of work and some traveling I’m back, and I’m about to write about how do I manage to use Mac for Java development. (Note: This is the last part of the Apple Project series.)

First of all, let me describe what I use and how do I/we use it.

Eclipse is our choice of IDE. We use Subversion as SCM, Maven as a build system/dependency management/reporting/documentation/etc.. Beside these we use, (just to mention few that could be in relation with OS):

• AspectJ
• Spring
• Hibernate for JPA
• TestNG

Primarily we are building web applications, backed with RDBMS – so I need a some local database for my Mac, and our choice of RDBMS is PostgreSQL, but we use Oracle and DB2 as well.

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My adventure in the world of Apples goes on. As I mostly liked the iron of the MacBook, now it is time to go on and see if I can do usual task as simple as in Ubuntu.

So I gathered things I do mostly:

1. Photo processing
2. Java development
3. Listen to music – I’ll need a good media player, an alternative to Amarok
4. Browse the net – Firefox or better
5. Chat through GTalk and Skype
6. Copy files from/to FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, SMB – a twin panel, alternative to Krusader
7. Simple text editing – jEdit should work
8. Formated text, spreadsheet and presentation – OpenOffice.org or alternative
9. Video playing – mplayer with front-end or alternative.

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