Before you ask me to search, I just wanna know YOUR opinions about Java development in either of those IDEs. I have been hearing a lot of good stuff about Netbeans lately, especially for J2EE development and mySQL integration. Any experiences?

Is there an easy way to use Netbeans with JBoss Application Server?

8/11/2006 1:55:21 PM

netbeans is an ultra bloated piece of shit. very often however the amount of bloat in eclipse pisses me off, but more often than not, I like and fine useful all the features in eclipse and the plugin library is unmatched. if it's small, I'll use crimson or textpad, if it's big, I use eclipse. netbeans does have a cool uml diagram thing built in though

8/11/2006 3:40:56 PM

What kind of plugins do you use?

Apart from the bundled testing and building plugins, I use the J2EE plugin by the JBoss team.

I do agree about it being a bit bloated, but it's nowhere as slow as the first few versions. The main problems I have with Eclipse is the frequent version updates that completely break things up even if certain components are updated (eg the JVM). Netbeans seems promising for EJB development.

8/13/2006 8:25:34 PM

i did pretty much all my coding in Eclipse last year, all Java. still have to get netbeans a real try

8/14/2006 12:51:00 AM

well, let us know soon!

I have done a little bit (couple hours maybe) of some framework stuff on Netbeans...could have done it in notepad for all I know...so I dunno much about Netbeans.

8/14/2006 2:37:06 AM

I haven't used netbeans in about a year because it was so painful when I used it before. The plugins I use are visual editor, one for jsp (I forget the name, something like lomboz), a debugger that gives good stats on line execution and things so I can evaluate how efficiently I did stuff, and this slick uml diagram creator. It's been so long since I installed the plugins I couldn't tell you their names.

8/14/2006 3:39:48 AM