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| rick.taiwan |
 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: Netbeans IDE impresses me more than Eclipse |
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I am an open-source bigot. I have an extreme preference for the open-source way of doing things.
So I was struggling to make an easily deployable cross-platform application with Eclipse. I hit some dead ends, I spent lots of time on it, etc.
I was committed to Eclipse because I was sick and tired of closed apps. I spent hours trying to wrangle Eclipse into making the sort of app I wanted.
Yesterday I tried Netbeans and got a vastly superior experience in a half hour.
I had been leery of Netbeans because when I last tried it -- in 1999 -- it was not very usable! Times have changed!
I don't know if Netbeans is truly open source, but for the moment I don't care. I trust Sun enough to work with their product.
I haven't gotten JUnit working in Eclipse, but a big part of the reason I was working with Eclipse is that I will eventually want to get automated testing going, e.g. with JUnit. But it looks like NetBeans supports automated testing.
So ... if you're a Java coder ... do have an opinion on a decent Java-centric IDE? |
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| marnixR |
| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:05 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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Location: Cardiff, Wales
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i'm still using 3.5.1, but in a very limited way, just to compile applets because it's somehow easier on the eye than the command screen
however, i tried the latest version (6.1) and went back to the old one because creating a whole project file for a single applet seems a bit too much like overkill to me ...
also tried JBuilder 9, since i had to use it at college, but that's the same : fine if you want to build proper Java programmes, but overkill if you only need to compile an applet
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