NetBeans 19 performs more poorly than 18. I can copy and paste one or two items to an external program before I need to do a Copy, Cut, & Restore. This will work for about a half hour. It is also now refusing to accept pastes from external programs. Then today it reported missing libraries in a class. I had the exact same project open but in another folder and it was fine. I deleted the caches and it seems to be working. Sometimes it takes a web project name as is and uses it as the context and sometimes it makes all letters lower case. I resolved that by putting the context I want in glassfish-web.xml but that was not necessary previously. As I understand it NB works flawlessly in Linux and a Mac.
I know that the in such a project that if there are issues, I should just pitch in and resolve them myself. Unfortunately, it will be simpler to change IDEs. Not really. For what it's worth the Eclipse IDE continues to have issues, so much so that it now has a restart button the closes and restarts the IDE. IntelliJ just wants you to work their way and would really rather not use Maven. Visual Code is cute but that's it. I feel like I will have to return to the dark ages of text editor and command line. Is there a Windows QA group? Is there a TCK that runs on Windows that should be updated? Is there a document that clearly identifies where in the code base everything is? I use NetBeans many hours each day, currently on a project for the Eclipse Foundation, but I am running out of curse words. I embarrassed my self today when presenting my work to the Eclipse people and problems cropped up. What can I and what can we do? I guess as a last resort I could use ChatGPT or one of its relatives to write bad code for me. My working environment is a Dell XPS desktop with an i9, 32 Gb RAM, 1 TB SSD, Windows 11. Ken
