NetBeans and Eclipse : When More is Less
posted Monday, 17 April 2006
103 MB (I see that Eclipse 3.1.2 is around 98 MB). Roumen points out that the NetBeans download going into the future is getting better with the daily NetBeans builds now going to 35.6 MB . This is interesting because comparisons of Eclipse and NetBeans always claim that out-of-the-box NetBeans offers much, much more. These out-of-the-box comparisons always favor NetBeans because it includes support for Java Enterprise Edition, Java Standard Edition, etc while Eclipse requires all sorts of extra plugins. I wonder what are all the extra megabytes that Eclipse includes ? No really, this is weird.
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| IDE |
Download Size |
Includes - |
| Eclipse |
98.0 MB |
support for Java Standard Edition |
| NetBeans |
35.6 - 58 MB |
GUI Builder, XML Editor, HTTP monitor, Struts, support for Java Enterprise Edition, Java Standard Edition, etc.
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It gets worse when you add even a few more Eclipse bits to try to get to some of the NetBeans features. EMF (3.4 MB), GEF (1.1 MB), Visual Editor (7.3 MB), Web Tools Platform (21.1 MB for partial Java Enterprise Edition support) and it goes on. What does Eclipse do with all those megabytes ?
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