Urbz Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Which do you prefer and why for Java development? I like NetBeans simply for the built-in GUI builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 I think that Eclipse on OS X kind of sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 +1 for NetBeans. The GUI builder is nice, and like Bofors said, Eclipse is buggy on OS X. It seems to freeze a lot for me, and I'm on a genuine MBP. I've been getting into Ruby lately; NetBeans has better integrated Ruby support. There's a Ruby plugin for Eclipse but it's a bit lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmoarena Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Eclipse gets slower and slower on OS X. started loving netbeans recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exolon Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Eclipse, although I must admit I haven't used Netbeans for years and then it wasn't much. Eclipse just has such useful refactoring support and facility for code navigation and by now I know most of the shortcuts for 'em. Also, the JUnit support is near perfect (except name completion doesn't work for unresolved symbols defined in static imports) and the team stuff is ok. That said, it's unbelievably slow sometimes. You should see it on my PIII box in work... took about two minutes to open the Update Manager dialogue, which just asks if you want to update existing stuff or search for new packages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant0ne Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I like NetBeans simply for the built-in GUI builder. Second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprogrammer Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I would have to agree. The GUI Builder in Netbeans is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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