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Its leightweight , sleek , cool.. it has everything you wanna dovelop! Ok now stop jumping into the conclusions. I am talking about the new NetBeans 6.0. The Best open source IDE i have seen till date for java , EE , ME . I must admit, NetBeans team has done a phenominal job on NetBeans6.0. The best part of the Netbeans is that its complete. I use to prefer eclipse for web apps and for swing apps, eclipse is kinda not productive even though there is some plugin called Visual Editor. I think the Visual Editor doesnt handle the Layout problem effectively. And as far as the ME is concerned, It involves lot of time to configure. There is nothing out of box.
Recently i was just playing around with the Netbeans M9 build and was really excited about the UML and offcoz Bean binding, JPA, integrated SUN Server.SOA support,Swing application framework, and tons N tons of features. Its really cool to have your pojo binded to the columns of the table(ORM), N ya one of the feedback to Netbeans team is to have a loose coupling though. But i think it will be done in coming builds.
Well, everything was not rosy, i did had an hick up when i tried to plugin the SwingLab plugin to Netbeans 6.0. It fired Null pointer Exception. But i am not sure if these builds support these plugins. still have logged it as a bug in issuezilla, hope that will be of some use to the team.
Out of context : People looking to work on some thing different and very innovative. Just check out JBI(Java Business Integration) http://www.glassfishwiki.org/jbiwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=E
