X-Received: by 2002:a0c:ba93:: with SMTP id x19mr1875798qvf.39.1551800367411; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:39:27 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a81:4657:: with SMTP id t84mr1450395ywa.478.1551800367227; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:39:27 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!m21no9343760qta.0!news-out.google.com!y15ni5027qta.0!nntp.google.com!m21no9343749qta.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 07:39:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.78.95.177; posting-account=2czF5goAAAD4GBMPIGV4KcD2K4PhoB_H NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.78.95.177 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5f7ffcf5-7e83-4510-a2e4-b842d7398167@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Proliferation of IDEs From: Eric Douglas Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:39:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 13 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38798 On Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 9:52:58 AM UTC-5, Jeffrey H. Coffield wrote: > > > I am a long time NetBeans user with some small experience with Eclipse=20 > and IntelliJ. The main difference I see is that NetBeans is actually a=20 > platform that can be extended to create applications whereas the other=20 > two are just IDE's. (But I could be wrong.) We have developed several=20 > applications that are "NetBeans Platform Apps" by replacing the=20 > TopComponent panels with our own modules. That being said, new=20 > development with JavaFX is probably going in a different direction. I don't know about developing apps on top of NetBeans, but you can develop = plugins for Eclipse. I don't know if the plugins can do what a NetBeans ap= p could do or if Eclipse has some other concept that is an app. I wouldn't= think to use someone else's IDE as a base for an app.