Re: Comparing Eclipse and NetBeans
- From: "Tonny Madsen" <tonny.madsen@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Oct 2006 08:54:07 -0700
If you read the title of the article - "Tools Talk: A Conversation With
Java Technology Evangelist Charles Ditzel" - you have the answer for
most of your questions :-) If you have the corresponding article from
Charles opposite number in the Eclipse Foundation, Wayne Beaton, he
would have found an equal number of points in favor of Eclipse, RCP and
the tools.
Both of these people are evangelists - and fortunately public about
this fact - and as such they are supposed to find points in favor of
their "own" product.
The truth is that both products are fine for their intended areas:
Netbeans seems to be stronger when it comes to GUI development, whereas
Eclipse seems stronger when it comes to plugin support in the basic
product, model support (EMF and GEF), an independent platform (RCP) and
support for obscure languages :-) Of cause, YMMW...
/tonny
ps. I'm likely to be biased as I have started The RCP Company,
rcp-company.com, based on the Eclipse platform. We don't really compare
or judge NetBeans versus Eclipse; We prefer to compare Microsoft .Net
and Eclipse RCP.
On Oct 13, 1:05 am, "Veloso" <starlo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Java.sun.com, Sun's main Java site, has a new article
up(http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/ditzel_qa....)
that compares NetBeans with Eclipse. In it, Sun's Charles Ditzel
claims:
-- NetBeans is a far simpler download with far greater functionality.
For instance, he says, "to build a graphical user interface (GUI),
NetBeans provides the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder, the best free Java
technology-based GUI builder. Eclipse 3.1 requires you to download
Visual Editor Project, which is another 7 or 8 megabytes, and has
nowhere near the features of the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder.
If you want to build a Struts, JavaServer Pages (JSP), or JavaServer
Faces technology-based web application with the NetBeans IDE, it's
already included, whereas with Eclipse, you have to download a 180+
megabyte Web Tools Platform (WTP) project that lacks Struts support and
requires yet another module for JavaServer Faces technology support."
-- He admits that Eclipse is addressing compatibility issues with
Callisto, but says the "jury is still out".
My experience is mostly with NetBeans. Question: Is Ditzel giving a
straight story or just being a shill for Sun, where he works? Would
anyone who has knowledge of both Eclipse and NetBeans care to take what
he says on? Or, for that matter, confirm it?
.
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