NetBeans IDE 3.5 Beta

Rob writes "We are pleased to announce the availability of the beta version of NetBeans IDE 3.5 release (codenamed Tegal). This release is focused on performance improvements, especially in the area of UI responsiveness. The binary and source distributions in various formats have been uploaded onto the website. We encourage all Java developers to download, try, test the bits, report problems and provide feedback. Also check out the new netbeans.org website design."

Comments

Who is daring enough

[chaotica1974]

I tried NetBeans a year ago and the UI was so unresponsive that menus would literally takes 10 seconds to come up. That's when a friend introduced me to Eclipse and I saw that Java IDEs don't have to suck. I have never looked back. I noticed this version claims to increase UI Speed/Responsivness. Can anyone that is using it back that up? When you maximize the window, do you see painfull Swing repaints? How much memory does this thing chug up when initially started (Before loading projects etc..)

Re:Who is daring enough

[Anonymous Coward]

NetBeans will never be the IDE for low-end machines, but to claim it universally "sucks" in terms of UI responsiveness is unfair.

On a mid-level enterprise development machine (1 GHz CPU and plenty of RAM -- how much depends on how much your other apps take), it works extremely well -- at least once you tune the Java heap and garbage collection parameters. [Sun has provided such parameters on the web, but unfortunately they're not set in the IDE out-of-the-box.]

[Personally I'll use Swing any day over an overly thin wrapper like SWT.]

Re:Give us some help here

[MyGirlFriendsBroken]

AFAIK the code for Netbeans origonally come from Sum from their IDE. Netbeans is now under some Sun open source lisence and is developed by the netbeans community. It is, however, extended by a number of commercial outfits with more functionality, typically J2EE stuff etc. Sun is one of thouse outfits which extends the IDE to give us Forte.

.Incidentally Forte community edition is almost exactly the same at netbeans but tends to run a few months behind. There is a road map somewhere with both netbeans and forte on it but I can't find it at the minite, it was somewhere on the netbeans site though.