Hey guys, am a developer but i use only netbeans platform and ide, but alot of other programmers think eclipse is better can u share your views?

Though i don't use any of the three (I code with wordpad for desktop apps and dreamweaver for web apps), but i read that one of the strengths of Eclipse is its support for custom-built plug-ins which can be added to the IDE enabling third-party developers to extend the functionality of the IDE by creating plug-ins for the IDE, also i think JBOSS is very good in Enterprise development (J2EE), (very good i must say) especially with new additions like Business Process Managament, JBOSS rules engine e.t.c

I haven't tried any one them though

Eclipse is better than Netbeans IMO however IDEA is better than Eclipse but it is not free

Sun Studio Creator is free as well and good.

For a long time it was without a doubt Eclipse, but I read an article demonstrating that Netbeans has caught up with Eclipse.

In my opinion, the best is RAD/WSAD (which I have been using for over 5 years) and it's not free either, and of course it's based on Eclipse.

IDEA is really good!
All thee platforms support plugins (eclipse, ItelliJ iDEA, netbeans)

I think netbeans shines when you do things like JSF, or new java standards stuff
eclipse (especially MyEclipse) is very good when using de-facto or open source stuff like struts,hibernate etc.

But the great thing is that there all free (almost , or at least cheap)

I'd guess Jbuilder is good,like all things from Borland ,but i don't know anyone who uses it anymore

last i used jbuilder was in 2001 4 some cellphone apps in java, seemed @ the time jbuilder was the best cellphone java app IDE tool.

Gone are the days of jbuilder, i dont think its still a good IDE for Java cos it lack support for third party plugins which makes the IDE not extensible.

Guys, I think its a matter of choice and demand, For java apps, JSF and semi-complex enterprise applications netbeans is the way. But for mobile application development and J2EE i'll advice eclipse. though i have just started with eclipse, I have already seen alot of advantages like in eclipse your source files are automatically compiles upon saving, and much more.

But personally I'll still be with NETBEANS for a while.

Most of these IDEs are very similar. It's all a matter of choice, which one is free, availability of plugins, and what you really want in an IDE. Personally, I use eclipse on my laptop. Primarily because all the clients I have worked at have always used IBM products, be it Websphere (WSAD), RAD 7. Eclipse is just like RAD 7, but will need quite a few readily available plugins (eg. Tomcat) to make it a full J2EE IDE. However, for a freely available IDE, it's very good.

As for automatic compilation of source in eclipse when saving, as mentioned by javadevil, these are all settings that can be enabled/disabled, and I would think the other IDEs have something like that.

LOL, we had this same argument some time past on this forum. And after that i personally went on the search for the "perfect" IDE.

Before i could finish, i found out through newsletters (of various IDE companies) i subscribed to, that each of them where making or patching all the loop holes they had with reference to the advantages of competitors.

For example Netbeans users would attest to Netbeans 6.0 saga and how Netbeans now have swiftly responded with speed with Netbeans 6.1

This suggests to the developer that he should be consistent with what he can find that is suitable to his wing / style of  software development, seriously has to avoid gambling with various IDE's.

i guess every developer should be concerned and focus on "Agile Development"
which states:

-- Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools.

-- Working software over comprehensive documentation.

--Customer Collaboration over contract negotiation.

-- Respond to change over following plan.

I had been with JBuilder since version 1 was released in 1997. We recently trialled NetBeans and Eclipse and settled  for Netbeans.

Eclipse probably has greater followership, and currently enjoy support from majors like IBM and Borland, etc. However, I personally find Eclipse unwieldy. I also don't like the idea of "unstandardized extensions"  - like SWT/JFace. Part of the reason why we dumped JBuilder was because the latest release is based on the Eclipse Platform.

Netbeans seems to me to be "slimmer" and more straight to the point and I love the Matisse UI developement features. In addition, since NB is from Sun, the IDE   would probably be the first to provide support for the most recent platform technologies and changes, I think.

Netbeans, sweet sweet netbeans, why will someone ever compare both, the only difference between Eclipse and Notepad++ is code-completion , besides can anyone do it better than the owners(a yoruba proverb), if you want to see the beauty of Netbeans and the sloppiness of Eclipse start from GUI design, can eclipse ever compete with matisse? the GUI engine in Netbeans, till date there are even no free GUI tool for eclipse, even the one they sell relies heavily on SWT instead of SWING, take both IDE's tear them apart function by function and you will realise eclipse sucks, and to this guy

javadevil:

, But for mobile application development and J2EE i'll advice eclipse.

sorry but have u tried the Netbeans mobility GUI builder at all, where you build mobile apps by Drag n Drop? can eclipse match such a thing, I started java development with Notepad then I moved to KAWA IDE, then to JEdit, then to JBuilder(powerful IDE not free), then I tried IDEA(powerful not free) then comes sweet sweet Netbeans(powerful and free), eclipse is just HYPE, I think some of you should take a look at this, http://www.netbeans.org/switch/realstories.html those are real stories,

You can't seem to beat that, can u?

indeed netbeans seems 2 have a powerful GUI design tool, but the problem is that not many people use GUI-based java applications these days. The power of Java has shifted to J2EE and J2ME, and is no longer applets or stand-alone apps. The last time i saw a project using java based GUI, it was a specialized project by the US government to cater for victims of natural disasters (indeed they were using netbeans for the project), and the app was to be deployed on special client computers reminiscent of POS units with special screens that were so small that the GUI design didn't look good on standard monitors (non-standard). Count how many times i used the word special (for you to have an idea of the user-base).

u really cannot argue that NetBeans beats Eclipse wrt mobile development especially when u consider that even the Android Mobile OS from Google readily has an ADT to facilitate development in Eclipse: http://code.google.com/android/intro/tools.html

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I have been having serious problem with loading the Visual Java Web Faces for designing after creation. It only loads the JSP and Java Code views. What is the problem?? Has anyone used the Visual Studio .NET before, Issues of IDEs are hardly a question and u have to give it to them - Microsoft are very good at IDE designs.

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