Java Development: Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 14, 2006 @02:45PM from the decisions-decisions dept.

Java_Good_COBOL_Bad asks: "For Java development, would most people recommend using Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA? I am currently using Eclipse and it took a long time to get the environment set up. I understand that Eclipse is a framework that can be used for many things, not just Java development, but all I really need is an IDE for Java. So, I wonder if Eclipse is more complex than I need. I have never used IDEA before. Is it more straight-forward? Has anybody here migrated from Eclipse to IDEA? How steep was the learning curve?"

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What about NetBeans by retinaburn · 2006-01-14 15:29 · Score: 1, Redundant

To throw another IDE in the mix, try out Netbeans. Last I checked 5.0 is in RC1. I have used it for a few pet projects, and find it quite useful. Especially for GUI development, they use a new component called matisse.