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Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a set of programs that incorporates a text editor, a compiler/assembler, a linker, a debugger, a project manager, and other development tools under the control of a single main application. The IDE can automatically run each of these applications as needed saving the application developer the need to learn different sets of commands for each of the components needed to build an application. Typically, an IDE is devoted to a specific programming language but most IDEs available in the market are provided for inherent support for cross platform environments, encouraging component/multi-tier architecture-based application development. IDEs feature sophisticated visualisation tools and an easy-to-use interface, and provide a fully integrated environment to design, build and test enterprise applications. The central component of most IDEs is the editor and project manager. A project in a typical IDE is a related collection of files that contain information needed to build a complete application. This could include assembly language source files, header files, object files, libraries, resource files, and binary data files. The point of an IDE project is to collect and manage these files to make it easy to keep track of them. Most IDEs manage the files specific to a given project by placing those files in a single subdirectory. Shared files (such as library and shared object code files) may appear elsewhere but the files that are only used for the project generally appear within the project directory. This makes for easier manipulation of the project.

VisualNet uses the following Industry Standard IDE:
Eclipse
JBuilder
JDeveloper
IntelliJ IDEA
Visual Studio.net
Weblogic WorkShop
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer