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Re: Eclipse And NetBeans

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> On 12-04-19 05:35 PM, Steve wrote:
>> I've been using Visual Slickedit for over 10 years.  I'm now working my
>> way through the help files in Eclipse.   I decided to give it a try
>> since it is *almost* a defacto standard in Java shops.
>>
>> I've been impressed with what I have seen so far.
>>
>> I understand that the other contender for popular, free, plugin based
>> JAVA IDE is NetBeans.
>>
>> I understand there may just be religious issues as far as which one a
>> person should choose, but while I understand the differences in
>> philosophies between an older religious war: emacs and vi,  I don't with
>> Eclipse and NetBeans.
>>
>> Both are written in Java, both are IDEs, both are built to take in new
>> functionality via plugins.
>>
>> So, what are the big differences between the two that make some people
>> go with one and others with the other?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any polite, non-critical, non-negative opinions
>>
>> Steve
>
[...]
> At any given time, for a particular job, the support may be markedly
> better in one IDE than in the others. In fact it may be missing in one
> while another has it. Bear in mind, these are IDEs, not just Java
> editors and Java build toolsets. People use a variety of build and
> source control systems in these things, a whole bunch of different
> programming languages...you know what I'm talking about, you've looked
> at what these IDEs do.
>
> So for a particular job it's fairly common that one IDE or the other
> stands out. For the most common tasks there aren't large differences at
> all, any IDE will serve. I tend to keep all of them available for niche
> jobs.
[...]
> In the workplace I often go with Eclipse simply because that's what the 
> client/customer team uses, and uniformity is important.

Excellent points.  For me the answer of whether to use Netbeans, Eclipse, 
or some other environment pretty much comes down to the answer to the 
question "What is the rest of the team using?"

I've worked on projects where different members of the team used different 
IDEs.  Those projects did not exist in that state for long.

For personal projects (where I'm the only developer) I tend to go with 
NetBeans if only because it handles PHP vastly better than PDT (or at 
least it did when last I checked.)  Obviously if you just do Java that 
doesn't matter, but as someone whose non-day-job work involves both 
languages, the ability to use the same IDE for both my Java and my PHP 
work is a major plus.

-Rob

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Eclipse And NetBeans Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-04-19 16:35 -0400
  Re: Eclipse And NetBeans William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2012-04-19 17:18 -0400
    Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-19 17:36 -0700
  Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-19 19:42 -0300
    Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Robert Tomsick <robert@tomsick.net> - 2012-04-25 17:09 -0400
      Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-26 07:30 -0700
        Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-26 18:05 -0300
          Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 15:02 -0700
            Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-26 20:00 -0300
              Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 16:31 -0700
                Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-27 16:15 -0300
          Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Robert Tomsick <robert@tomsick.net> - 2012-04-27 13:07 -0400
        Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-10 15:28 -0700
        Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-10 15:33 -0700
  Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Allen l <debare21@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 18:38 -0700
  Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-09 19:11 -0700
    Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-05-15 09:43 -0400
    Re: Eclipse And NetBeans Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-05-15 09:45 -0400

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