Trying Eclipse - Part 1
I have long been an Eclipse Junkie, but recently have found that I am hearing more and more about NetBeans, even using it in parts over the last 12 months to do some quick UI work. So I have now undertaken a serious effort to get my projects working and editable inside NetBeans.
I'm running the 6.0 dev version M8, and so some of my issues may just be due to the Dev nature of the build.
So in this post I'll give my inital feelings, then look at later ones as to pros and cons of NetBeans vs Eclipse.
Straight off the bat its nice and small. 40 odd MB for the NB IDE version, in comparison to 150+ for the Eclipse / WST bundle. I guess NB is a bit bigger as I used the Update Center to get all the editing tools for the web stuff, but still feels way under the 150+ that Eclipse is.
Maven integration is COOL. With a capital Cool... I just check out each of my modules then do Project Open and boom... Project is open, all dependecies are downloaded, and different code sections are layed out nicely.
Things I miss, or can't find yet:
- A problems view for each project? Must be there somewhere but can't see it.
- Collapsing packages to those that only contain classes or multiple sub packages
- Sync the Package Tree and selected file.
But so far so good.. Update later