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Message: [QUOTE="Martin Gregorie, post: 3965632"] I don't use any IDEs at all - just a text editor, javac, jar and ant. In my opinion any third party Java package should be usable in this environment on any platform. It must not have dependencies on any particular IDE. If a package can be used without an IDE, that pretty much guarantees that it can be used with any current or future IDE. Additionally, it should not be dependent on any specific platform unless it implements capabilities that could never be useful anywhere else. If it has this type of restriction this MUST be clearly spelled out in the package overview and class documentation. Any other dependencies outside the standard JDK must also be made clear. When I tried to run it using Opera 10.0 under Linux (Fedora 10) and Java 1.6.0_07 it failed to run, locking up Opera in the process, so I suspect that it does in fact have undeclared dependencies. [/QUOTE]