NetBeans Vs Eclipse
Let me clear in beginning, I am strong fan of Eclipse. I have been using Eclipse for past 3 years and its very powerful. I love it for whole lot of reasons which I can't mention here. In Javaone conference I heard a lot about cool NetBeans demos and features. I just thought to give a try to that. I was not hoping much from NetBeans. I installed IDE, enterprise pack & profiler. I created a simple web-application project. The integrated Glassfish / Sun App server really makes testing very easy. Just out-of-curiosity I clicked on debug button after placing a breakpoint in bean and surprisingly it allowed me to debug my web-application. Previously I remember, I used to spend lots of hours by writing log traces and analyzing them to debug application. Man, that’s really handy!Beyond that, UML modeling (both way), testing, Web-services & BPEL integration makes NetBeans a real powerful JavaEE IDE. Tons of wizards are available to perform typical coding / modification tasks. Its aware of Java 2, 5 & 6 syntax aware so it makes development easier for any version of Java. JSF & Struts are integrated so no worry for web developers.But I need to admit the editor of Eclipse is far rich than NetBeans. For everything else the NetBeans is just superb! Waiting for more in coming days. 
Hi, I am glad you like what you see in NetBeans. For your information, improving the editor is a priority for NetBeans 6.0 (the one after 5.5), where it will go through a major overhaul. You will see more editing features from IDEs such as Eclipse or IDEA in NetBeans. The speed of the editor (code completion, etc.) will also improve because the new infrastructure is more lightweight. Feel free to join our community, if you have any questions nbusers@netbeans.org mailing list is a good place to get answers fast. Cheers! -Roman
Roman Strobl
10 Jun 06 at 1:09 pm
The sweat spot for Netbeans is atleast 1GIG of RAM. That’s more than the maximum requirement for running Quake4! I can’t imagine why a pretty editor with a couple of windows requires such amount of RAM
super inggo
3 Jul 07 at 10:55 pm