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Netbeans 4: Wow... absolutely smashing

Comments[4] by Dave in Java

Joseph B. Ottinger: So far... "Wow" and "Well, it's okay."

I found the installation to be a breeze, which isn't too much of a surprise. It found the various JVMs on my machine, including 1.5, which was good, I suppose.

It looks absolutely smashing. (That's good.) The development pane is easy to understand at first glance, also good (although note that I'm not a rank newbie to Netbeans, so my prior experience may factor in here.) It's pretty fast, too, which is good to see. Maybe this will help shut up the SWT hordes.

Lately, I've been working on making the switch to Netbeans 4.X (I'm using both 4.0 and 4.1-beta). My expectations were pretty low due to my past experience with Netbeans 3.X, but Netbeans 4.X is great. It's a whole new IDE, the Ant integration is awesome, and 4.1 adds the refactoring I need to make the switch. Plus, it's fast. I have to agree with Charles Ditzel, the tables have turned and now both Netbeans (and IDEA) seem to be faster and more responsive than Eclipse.

Unfortunately, my Eclipse addiction is still not entirely under control. The one area that needs work in both IDEA and Netbeans is the source-code control integration, I still have to fire up Eclipse when I need to synchronize with the CVS repository. I feel like I'm flying blind without Team Synchronization view.



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CVS integration in Idea 4.5 works like a charm, so I'm not sure why you have to switch over to Eclipse. Ctrl-Alt-S and then click on Version Control and select CVS and you're off and running. It also works well in conjunction with TortoiseCVS.

Posted by Anthony Eden on March 12, 2005 at 02:37 PM EST #

Yeah, you're right. I spent about a week with IDEA, but I didn't find <a href= "http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/docs/help/vcs/projectcvs.html"> this stuff</a>. Looks roughly equivalent to the Eclipse Team Sync view. I could easily live with that.

Posted by Dave Johnson on March 12, 2005 at 03:27 PM EST #

I agree with your assessment of NetBeans 4. It is nice. I installed it today and had a go with it. It took a few minutes to figure out how to setup CVS, but I finally figured it out. However, I also agree with your assessment of Eclipse. I feel it is just a much better IDE at this time for Java. I do notice some slowness, but I also noticed slowness in NetBeans. Like you, I rely a lot on the Team Synchronization view. All in all, I am very happy with Eclipse and I will probably stick with it.

Posted by Kerry Sanders on March 19, 2005 at 07:36 PM EST #

Realy good site!

Posted by Donny on September 16, 2005 at 04:05 PM EDT #

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