| IDE | JDK/emacs | Jbuilder | Visual Age (IBM's) | Symantec Café | Codewarrior | Netbeans | Kawa |
| Features | |||||||
| Java 2: JFC, Swing, beans, collections etc. | |||||||
| AppletViewer availability | |||||||
| Platforms: solaris, linux, windows, mac | |||||||
| Project and file organization, renaming, relocating | |||||||
| Class and object browser | |||||||
| Main code presentation : color, readability | |||||||
| Intellisense (showing available options) | |||||||
| Syntax tracing and completion | |||||||
| Ease of debugging | |||||||
| GUI development Support | |||||||
| Bean development support | |||||||
| Packaging support | |||||||
| Other tools | |||||||
| Ease of use | |||||||
| Dependence on non-java pacakges | |||||||
| Performance (speed) | |||||||
| Price | |||||||
| Location /machine ==> | Grad Lab/ hadar | ? | FRC PC / 211 Bell Hall | Binas PC / 127 Bell | Grad lab PC | Everest/ solaris | Personal Lap Top |
| Name of Evaluator ==> | Phil Ventura | Neigel Creese | Neigel Creese | Neigel Creese | Neigel Creese | Kevin Casey | Adam Poulis |