Eclipse vs. Netbeans

[monkey_instinct]

Eclipse and Netbeans are both very good IDEs for developing Java applications. I like eclipse 'cause is open source and have a lot of extensions, but on my Ubuntu laptop I have some problems with it. It seems to work better on Windows than on Linux. I don't know why. Eclipse is suppose to be mainly target to open source platforms. Anyway, which one do you like the most?

[John]

I love eclipse, and it works fine on my Linux installation.

[Lop]

Eclipse but I haven't really used Netbeans to often. Is it free (I can't even remember)? I believe it is probably your Java version or installation that is causing the problems with Eclipse on Linux. I have seen this happen before.

[G_Morgan]

6 months ago I thought they were equal. Netbeans 6 is quite an improvement and puts it ahead for my liking. Eclipse has more add ons but 99% of them are crap and not worth the effort while Netbeans has a range of add ons that are supported by Sun directly.

[John]

I think Eclipse blows Netbeans away.

[nutario]

I think eclipse is better, because it is more variable than netbeans. But it depense on which programming language you'll use.

Off topic:
I'm using ubuntu too.
When you have installed eclipse from the official ubuntu server it will probably not work.
But when you take the IDE from eclipse.org for Linux, you should not have any problems with java. Especially not when you are using the offical java from sun. For c++ or c you nead the gcc too (you surely now).

[G_Morgan]

I think eclipse is better, because it is more variable than netbeans. But it depense on which programming language you'll use.

Off topic:
I'm using ubuntu too.
When you have installed eclipse from the official ubuntu server it will probably not work.
But when you take the IDE from eclipse.org for Linux, you should not have any problems with java. Especially not when you are using the offical java from sun. For c++ or c you nead the gcc too (you surely now).

I think that is the beginning and end of it really. Netbeans is brilliant for Java and Ruby and does a good job with C/C++. Eclipse is probably better than it at everything else.

My main problem with Eclipse is there is a huge array of poor plugins. The Netbeans ones are really high quality if far fewer.

The reason I'd pick Netbeans 6 is because they dramatically improved the raw code manipulation for this release which is the main benefit of Eclipse. I never minded this because I always have my IDE tie into a text editor of my choice.

[Jordan]

I like netbeans better. Eclipse has many flaws that if used often start to become more than annoying. I don't do Java development with it but at my workplace the application I use to program EDI Maps in is based off of Eclipse.

[ggggqqqqihc]

I like eclipse better because of its extensions. But Netbeans is more powerful for J2EE project. For web development, Eclipse need lots of plugins. That's boring.

[Jordan]

What extensions do you use?