6.2. Projects
IntelliJ IDEA, Dreamweaver MX, Sun ONE Studio 3, and JBuilder 7 all insist you create a project when you write code. If you are going to write anything in one of these IDEs, it must be part of a project. That can make writing small-class files for testing impractical in these programs—it can take longer to set up the project than to just write out your code in a plain text editor. Of course, the way around this is to create a test project in which you store files that aren't part of anything else, which is what I recommend doing.
Note
Projects in Dreamweaver MX are called “sites.”
Coming from the world of ColdFusion, the notion of projects is probably not entirely foreign. We could set up projects in ColdFusion Studio since version ...
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