Re: What's the Big Java Development Environment These Days?

From: Mpost (Mpost_at_javaworld.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:57:12 GMT

JBuilder is top down the best of the best in features. The one to beat.
IntelliJ IDEA is great too and was cheap but I heard they now raised the price
so it no longers holds that edge. The open tools community is a lot more
active in JBuilder than IDEA. With power and features (jbuilder CVS
integration has no match, while IDEA smart refactorings and look and feel are
also nice)comes at a price. Netbeans is horrible (no refactoring, slow, and
just plain ugly). Eclipse is great. I think the student that mentioned
netbeans should give this one a try and get his school using this(mind share).
So there you have it.

JBuilder - for those with deep pockets but who just want every feature known
to man. Its power will draw you in. Its super fast to boot. (3 times faster
than my ant clean compiles)
IntelliJ IDEA - for those who are good with the keyboard. Once you get hook to
this thing you are hooked for life.
Eclipse - for everyone. I use it and I have JBuilder 9. I had intelliJ
before.
NetBeans - for those who really hate Eclipse (you must also be a little wicked
in head to hate eclipse so I guess thats also a requirement) and want a open
source solution.

 

jp_yanick@hotmail.com (Le Je-Pe) wrote:
>I'm surprised no one has even mentioned NetBeans (www.NetBeans.org)
>It's absolutely FREE and does pretty much everything you need it to...
>Being a student, I don't have anyone paying for software licenses so
>having an open-source solution is really ideal...
>Plus, a lot of my teachers use it as their main Java IDE... It's gotta
>be doing something right!

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