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Netbeans 4.1 Released
njcoder writes "Netbeans 4.1 was released a few days ago. Though it is only a short time since 4.0 was released and only a minor version number increase, the new Netbeans 4.1 contains a number of significant enhancements. New features include enhanced support for J2ME (mobile) projects, a new Navigator component, enhancements to the Ant based project system, ability to define multiple source roots, enhanced support for J2EE applications including EJB support for creating Session, Entity and Message Driven Beans, bundled J2EE application server, bundled Tomcat server upgraded to the 5.5 series, Web Services support, Eclipse project import tool, and more. The days of a slow and ugly Netbeans seem to be over. Using the new Metal look and feel in Java 5 brightens things up a bit as well. More information can be found in the release info and go here to download the new version. Java boutique has a review, with screenshots, of the new released titled IDE Wars: Has NetBeans 4.1 Eclipsed Eclipse?."
Eclipse is no longer an IDE, it's an entire application platform. The IDE is just an application that's built on the Eclipse platform. The Rich Client Platform technology let's you write a application in the eclipse plugin style that takes advantage of features that have already been created for eclipse, such as the update mechanism, help system, etc... Netbeans will never be able to offer all that. It's nothing but a mere Java IDE.
So where is the love?
There is a die-hard group of Sun-haters and Java-haters here. Certain fans of C, C++ or Python see Java as a threat to their pet language, whatever that may be. Anything that is bad for Java (such as fragmenting the standard platform ala SWT) is ok in their books. The Sun-haters are GNU holdovers, reactionaries who despise Sun because, to the UNIX world, they were the EVIL EMPIRE at one time. Don't waste your breath waiting on such people to recognize the merits of Netbeans.
There is also a group of "followers" who don't like Netbeans or Swing because of the whisper campaign, not because they have actually used either. The notion that interfacing Java code to C results in greater speed than pure Java code has been debunked, but it is an idea that continues to pop up. I would suggest that open-minded people should go ahead and give Netbeans a try. I wouldn't mind seeing NB used, as Eclipse has been, as a platform for editors for other languages and VMs.
Oh, and NB actually has a pretty good standard UI builder, unlike Eclipse, which is still experimenting with a half-dozen or so alternative ones in beta. So for speedy professional development, Netbeans is the way to go.
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Oh, yeah. There is one Netbeans freak at my office (who actually uses Eclipse for daily work) but with every release he keeps telling me how much better Netbeans is. I believe his word every time, and I always download that crap and end up deleting it two hours later due to all the frigging bugs and crashes. NetBeans is way too buggy for daily work. Even our NetBean freak at the office can't use it because it keeps crashing on him.
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