InfoWorld Review : NetBeans IDE "More Intuitive Than Eclipse"
posted Saturday, 22 April 2006
"The NetBeans IDE is a well-designed environment for developing Java. It is more intuitive than Eclipse and, as opposed to that product, it does not get in the way of developing. You can create a complex project, code away, import resources, and build and debug the executable in NetBeans without ever looking at tutorials or consulting the help system. That’s an almost impossible feat for a first-time user in Eclipse." - InfoWorld Review
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As in nature, the eclipse is a temporary phenomena and so InfoWorld's title, NetBeans Attempts to eclipse Eclipse, suggests the arrival of the end of the eclipse is at hand. Time will tell - but NetBeans lightning-fast improvements and addition of features within a relatively short time have turned heads and won swarms of new converts. InfoWorld has a nice review of NetBeans. The article discusses the latest release of NetBeans, NetBeans 5.0 and has some very nice things to say. It discusses some of the new features - Matisse, developer collaboration, large set of refactorings, code completions, CVS, HTTP monitor, database explorer, profiler, the arrival of C/C++ support in NetBeans and much more. The review also suggests area where NetBeans will need to improve - more vendor participation and smoothing out some of the rough edges of the new features. Very nice review. Check out the review here.
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