Looks like another IDE war coming on :-) You need to check out them out yourself. As you will no doubt soon see, each of us have different likes and requirements.
NetBeans is known for its outstanding GUI (Form) editor and JSP editing. It also has excellent support for CVS and Ant integration. While Eclipse is very good at refactoring. I prefer to use NetBeans as it suits more for the power user. You can change just about anything under its hood from within the IDE. At my new job they were all using JDeveloper, a commercial product, and it only took me 3 weeks to convert all of them to NetBeans. NetBeans now has some nice features in it's suggestion module that will automatically fix code for you, examples are: - missing javadoc tags, - missing import statements, - missing object castings, - and more... I find it just heaven when an IDE fixes your code for you before you have even compiled it. I don't like Eclipse because it is not all written in java. It is written in a mixture of languages and therefore cannot run on all platforms. You also cannot use the different Look&Feels that are out there for java. Eclipse is also very short on features compared to NetBeans. This abundance of features can (naturally) slow it down, make sure to turn off all the features you won't be using after you have given them a test run. Again, find out your requirements, and try them all out :) Mick. On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:03:03 +0300, Firat TIRYAKI wrote: > you should use eclipse, it doesn't use swing for GUI's, and it's faster than > the others. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Can someone please suggest me a free J2EE IDE suitable for development of >> webapps using STRUTS. I know of some IDE's like the FORTE, ECLIPSE, >> NETBEANS. However I wanted to ckeckout if anyone has already evaluated any >> of these since I am not sure which one is easy to use and has reasonably >> good features as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
