Article:		A Look at the Eclipse IDE
Subject:		How does it compare with NetBeans?
Date:		2003-11-17 20:00:15
From:		anonymous2
I've never tried Eclipse before. However, I've been using Netbeans for almost half a year. To be honest, Netbeans is pretty slow and unstable in Mac OS X. I guess Eclipse should be noticeably faster. What are the other differences between the 2 java IDE?

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• How does it compare with NetBeans?
  2003-11-18 06:56:19  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I used Netbeans for years on my Macs as well, and only use Eclipse for my app dev now (and Netbeans for JSP).
  
  If you're doing JSP/servlet work, stick with Netbeans. Eclipse's "inline JSP" support is either lacking or not immediately evident. If you are doing app dev and really need a GUI building RAD, you should read up on LayoutManagers, ur, I mean, keep using Netbeans for that only. ;^) I keep waiting for someone to pull that out of Netbeans and attach it to Eclipse (yes, mixing Swing and SWT)... The joys of open source...
  
  If you're doing Java application work, switch to Eclipse and you'll feel like you got a free processor upgrade if you've got enough RAM (and it does take a lot!). The refactoring tools are awfully nice as well, and there are a number of non-Java plugins.
  
  Essentially, in my experience, for editing Java "stand-alones", you can substitute one for the other without any issue, and Eclipse has much nicer performance.

• How does it compare with NetBeans?
  2003-11-18 01:20:49  acgn [Reply | View]
  
  
  Netbeans also supports web development with tomcat (though not EJB).
  
  I have used the Netbeans GUI development toolset in production and am very satisfied with it.

• How does it compare with NetBeans?
  2003-11-17 22:19:11  acgn [Reply | View]
  
  
  For one, netbeans has a nice GUI designer and editor. Eclipse does not.