Jonathan Harley schrieb: > Sean Schofield wrote: >> MyEclipse is a commercial IDE built on Eclipse right? I'm curious to >> know a fellow developer's opinion on what some of the improvements >> over free Eclipse are ... > > They just provide a huge number of Eclipse plugins for you. Having someone > else do testing and provide stable, integrated plugins saves you from the > plugin hell most Eclipse users that I've worked with seem to live in. > > MyEclipse has a 1 month free trial, which I took up last year. But after > a month I found it didn't do anything that I wanted that NetBeans can't > do, and NetBeans is free so I settled on that. > > BTW, NetBeans 5 is now out and it's noticeably faster at things like > auto-suggest than any other IDE I've tried. > While Netbeans5 simply is great it severely lacks currently in the area of JSF, you only get raw jsf templates, no pageflow edit etc.. Sure you can get JSC2 which is simply great, but then you have to run an extra IDE, and you only get the Sun components for now.
Both have their strengs and weaknesses, I have tried Netbeans and probably if I have to do some EJB would use it in an instant. But for now I do heavy javascript debugging, I need good Spring support Hibernate as well, and Netbeans does not cut it in this area.
