01 January, 2009

Netbeans 6.5 looks good but...

It's been some time since I last looked at Netbeans. If i'm not mistaken I think I last attempted to use version 4.

I got really excited when I looked at Netbeans version 6.5. I immediately noticed the performance improvements and thought, "Hey I can work with this fast sleek looking IDE". My eye caught the Eclipse import feature, see screen shot.

Netbeans claims that you can work seamlessly on your projects by using either Eclipse or Netbeans by using the Eclipse synchronisation tool.
Sounds cool right?
Well I've attempted to import my projects that I currently work on, and I'm sorry to say but it completely messed up during the import. The Netbeans import tool seems to have particular problems where the Eclipse build path is setup to build outside the project path.

I also don't get why Netbeans spends so much effort in language support for non- Java related languages?

Maybe I now again realise why it took me so many versions before looking at Netbeans again, and it seems it will take another few major versions before I look at it again.



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