NetBeans vs Eclipse 
March 21st, 2006
For those who have not read this already, there is an interesting article from Tim over on the Radar about NetBeans vs Eclipse popularity.
We are currently working on our Java strategy for our AJAX components and so this is a very big question for us. Having been discussing some of the possibilities of AJAX and JSF with the Java Studio Creator team at Sun. Of course JSC is built on NetBeans 4.1 and from the sounds of the comments in Tim’s post Sun may have made a good choice. From an AJAX component vendors perspective I think that JSC makes a lot of sense compared to Eclipse since, as Robert Thornton mentioned in the comments of Tim’s post
Eclipse only recently left the beta stage in its support for web development, almost as if it were an afterthought. NetBeans has supported web development for years as part of its core functionality. Its web support has had time to mature and grow.
In particular there are some really great features in JSC such as the DataProvider architecture and JSF support. I still need to find some time to actually play around with JSC some more.
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March 22nd, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Hey Dave,
It�s an interesting conversation that�s taking place around this.
Ian Skerritt of the Eclipse Foundation has some interesting posts about it here:
http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2006/03/evans-study-of-ides.html
http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2006/03/eclipse-gains-market-share-in-2005.html
Roumen pipes up on the Sun side:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=netbeans_growth_questioned
Tim bray has commented on it as well:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/03/13/IDE-Numbers
May 8th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
It seems that as the Sun and Eclipse people spend years and dollars wrangling each other, the “hybrid” market of taking
Swing UI
features from companies like NetBeans and incoporating them into Eclipse is what is actually being used in the marketplace. Politics is all fine and good, but if usability of either product is compromised or evolution hindered, the consumer is the loser.
Companies like
Genuitec
and MyEclipse
are on the forefront of this effort, and as usual we welcome the next partnering opportunities that make our communities richer and more productive.