Hate to say this but netbeans (www.netbeans.org) beats eclipse hands down. Does all of the below and lots more. Go take a look at the module selection at www.netbeans.org/devhome and http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/modules/by-module.html
There is the full ide and a 'platform' version which is the basis of any application wishing to use any combo of the modules + any 'user' developed modules. And its open source too ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans Dockter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Eclipse is so amazing... > A major aspect of Programming is mastering complexity. The human mind > can deal only with something like seven entities at once. An important > means to approach a set of entities that is much larger is > abstraction. A good IDE reduces the amount of swapping between levels > of abstraction tremendously which saves energy and keeps one more > focused for the actual problems. A good IDE does increase my > productivity significantly. > > Other aspects are: > - Refactoring: How do the people with emacs or vim change the names of > fields and methods. With regular expressions ? Well, good luck. How do they move > classes to other packages, etc .... Either they don't do all this > stuff it although they would like to, or they spend a lot of work and are still likely > to have forgotten something. (O.k. they have unit test so there will > be an alert, but still). Even simple refactoring is a nightmare without a tool > that supports it. > - Reduction of compilation errors (due to code assist) > - Preventing dumb work. For example creation of delegate objects, smart templates, etc ... > - many more aspects > > When talking about Eclipse one thing is important: > > Eclipse is NOT an IDE but an application framework. IBM is thinking > about using Eclipse as a framework for there future > applications. It is a container for plug-ins like JBoss is a > container for MBeans. And as the J2EE support of JBoss is just a set > of MBeans, the Java-IDE of eclipse is just a set of plug-ins. > > I'd use Eclipse as a framework for almost any UI application I can > imagine. One thing of this framework is a new GUI lib, the SWT. If > this would have been available earlier the Java reputation for the > Desktop would be good and not fucked up like it is now. > > When I say good IDE I mean it. Eclipse Java IDE is one, IntelliJ from > all what I hear as well, others are not. > > Compared to IntelliJ there are two important differences. Eclipse is > open source. It solves many problems if you have insight in the code. > Eclipse offers a API with deep access to the framework to plug-in and > enhance it. From what I've heard about IntelliJ there is an open API > but it does not go deep. > > I hope that the next major release of JBoss-IDE will be so attractive > that many JBoss developer will jump on it even if they have to get > acquainted to a new tool. > > But anyway, it's good to have choices (: > > Hans > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Jboss-development mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
