NetBeans Java hints is a very reach set of the code checks which helps me to avoid stupid errors and keep high the quality of my work. While coding, it is important to have feedbacks from the IDE about the quality of the code and possible errors. If you don’t believe me, have a look at this 2008 bug still open: and its related bugs. See here for a small tutorial.īut even if you install a test support plugin like MoreUnit, still an important Eclipse limitation remains : the possibility to have a dir for test files separated from the main src dir, which is an essential feature to let us handling deployments. I’m using MoreUnit plugin which is quite nice and add many missing features to Eclipse. In NetBeans there is complete native jUnit and TestNG support (templates, test runs, jump to test option in the editor, both *Test and *IT files support) which I found very useful and efficient.Įclipse native support is poor but of course it can be extended via plugin. I cannot imagine any real EE developers which does not need any kind of test support from the IDE. Why, in 2014, an IDE for Java EE developers does not include full testing support ? If you install Findbugs and PMD plugins, Eclipse becomes really slow. I don’t have benchmarks to demonstrate my feeling but now my coding is visibly faster with NetBeans 8.0 than with Eclipse Kepler. Five years ago, when I moved from Galileo to NetBeans I really missed Eclipse speed: coding, windowing, compilation, everything were significantly faster in Eclipse. Now let me compare them again, Eclipse Kepler 4.3 vs NetBeans 8.0, on same project (a big ant based web project) and on the same PC (Win7 64bit 4G RAM). So, I was not really happy when the project moved to NetBeans (because of its Swing support). I have already used Eclipse some years ago and, at that time (2009), Eclipse Galileo were quite superior to NetBeans 6.x: faster, rich of code hints and warnings, full of useful plugins. Of course, I’m also using NetBeans 8.0 for some activities like, for example, legacy code test coding. In my current project, Eclipse Kepler has been selected by the customer as the preferred IDE for all main tasks.
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