Wildfly is good.

Eclipse.  If you are a beginner it is not a very good IDE for JEE development because it is rather not up to date, at any given moment from the JEE timelines and you are reduced to figuring out why your stuff doesn't work. However, if you are an experienced JEE person and you are out there on the lists and you understand the dependencies and have experience dealing with very complex JEE deps, it is OK because most of the time you can get around the lag in Eclipse support and fix it yourself.  (i.e. We are in the middle of the great Jakarta/Sun migration and so on and so forth so it is important your IDE is up to date.)

Intellij. Not mentioned and I wonder why as it is a very good JEE environment for both the pro and the beginner and is usually up to date and has decent support if something is broken. Maybe due to the fact it is a subscription. If you are a beginner and need someone to hold your hand so you can write code, and not fight with the IDE most of the time, you might want to check it out.

I never used the other tools, and I suspect there is some of you here divorced from the GUI IDE development and are sticking with Maven or what not and Emacs.  Nothing wrong with that.  :-)  I got burned on a project after Eclipse ate it and was a command line guy for many years.  Then I bought Intellij and started migrating back to Eclipse several years later. I now use both.

I use a TARBALL for my Intellij installations.  RPM for Eclipse as I am on obviously a Fedora desktop.

COPR don't know and FLATPAK don't you dare.  :-)

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 8:55 AM John W. Himpel <john@jlhimpel.net> wrote:
All,

The Fedora Server WG has developed an ansible role to deploy a
standalone Wildfly Server.  To test the deployment for accuracy, I
thought I would run one of the quickstarts for Wildfly.  I know that I
can develop and deploy the quickstarts from a non-gui environment.
However, I suspect many JEE developers use some sort of GUI for
development.

The Wildfly pages suggest using either JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) or
Elcipe with JBoss Tools and m2eclipse.

Do anyone have any opinions on which IDE works better and/or is easier
to use?

Since Java packaging for Fedora has been reduced to a bare minimum, do
you:
1) Download your IDE and install via tar
2) Use someone's COPR to install your IDE
3) Use someone's flatpak to install your IDE

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