Andy: I have used Netbeans for about 15 years now. I look at Eclipse occasionally and just recently evaluated it again. It comes up lacking every time. I am doing a little bit with Android at the moment and, as you know, the android development environment is being developed on Intellij. The big thing for me with Intellij is that you can only have one project open at a time (unless I'm missing something -- I'm not accomplished with it). Since I do client/server applications I need 3 projects open all the time; client, common, server. So Intellij doesn't work for me.
When Netbeans 8 was released there was some noise about it supporting TomEE but it only supports the Tomcat portion of TomEE. There is no support for the EJB container which, for my use, kind of defeats the purpose since I do real applications -- not browser garbage. It is not difficult, however, to connect a java client to TomEE as you recently revealed on the TomEE forum. While Glassfish is the RI for JEE it apparently has some problems. Nobody has yet, to my knowledge, documented how to connect a Netbeans Platform application to Glassfish. I managed to get a Platform application to connect via websockets but then Glassfish would not dish up a DataSource (appears from Google searches to be a long-standing issue). Netbeans should replace Glassfish with TomEE and really, truly integrate it into the IDE in my opinion. OpenEJB works fabulously and for those who need the browser access Tomcat provides that with, as far as I can tell, hot deploy from Netbeans. At least if you drop a new *.war file into webapps it redeployes -- I assume that is what the IDE does. I drop an *.ear into the apps directory and restart the container. In summary to your question: I use Netbeans to develop Java client/server financial applications with lots of data input (browsers are very inefficient at data input in my experience) and reporting (currently using *.pdf but will be soon experimenting with the Apache ODF toolkit). Swing is a fabulous interface and JavaFX will be getting more important to my work all the time since Swing is evidently in "maintenance" mode. Connectivity to EJB is essential in my environment. I'm still using RMI but leaning strongly toward websockets for my next generation connectivity. Just my $.02. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Andy Gumbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am chatting with some of the Netbeans team in regards to how their IDE > fits into the TomEE picture. > I have used Netbeans in the past and think it is a great tool, but for the > last few years it's been Intellij-IDEA on my desk. > > I'd like to get your feedback on who is using Netbeans, and what for? > > Thanks for your time, happy hacking. > > Andy. > > -- > Andy Gumbrecht > > http://www.tomitribe.com > [email protected] > https://twitter.com/AndyGeeDe > > TomEE treibt Tomitribe! | http://tomee.apache.org >
