Re: Eclipse vs. Netbeans for J2EE development

["John Wells" <jb@sourceillustrated.com>]

Robert,

Thanks for the info.  Btw, I tried out MyEclipseIDE (www.myeclipseide.com)
over the weekend and I must say, I'm impressed.  It's apparently a mix of
some freely available plugins, but for $29.99 a year you get an easy setup
utility, documentation and support.  Not bad at all.  They support a
number of enterprise servers (JBoss, etc).  Another nice feature:
interactive JSP debugging...

Worth taking a look.

John

Robert Gash said:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:51:18 -0400 (EDT), John Wells was overheard saying:
> |  How do they compare in terms of J2EE support?  I'm preparing to ramp up
> on
> |  a project involving Struts and a few EJBs thrown in for good measure.
> |
> |  Which will make my job easier?
>
> Eclipse is my IDE of choice, I use it every day for a mix of EJB and
> plain Java development.  Eclipse (the free version) does not provide
> any "native" support of EJB, although the Lomboz plugins [1] (also free)
> do.  I never really liked Lomboz very much, so I did my EJB by hand.
> Additionally, the core Eclipse download does not include JSP/HTML/XML
> savvy editors.  You'll be forced to download more third party plugins
> if you want to have syntax hilighting and code assist for
> JSP/HTML/XML.  Most of the plugins I have found leave much to be
> desired, as they only provide simple highlighting and/or indentation.
>
> IBM does provide "native" EJB support as part of the Websphere Studio
> [2] (their commercial version of Eclipse).
>
> It has been a little over a year since I used NetBeans as my primary
> development environment, but it does provide decent "native" support
> of JSP, HTML, and XML out of the box.  Even the dated 3.3/3.4 releases
> of NetBeans had better JSP/HTML/XML support than Eclipse with most of
> the free plugins.  Additionally they seem to have J2EE support through
> plugins as well, including an NetBeans JBoss integration plugin that
> claims to provide a rich variety of J2EE support.
>
> Neither NetBeans or Eclipse provide strong J2EE support out of the
> box, as the vendors involved want to sell that to you (WebSphere
> Studio, Forte/Sun ONE, etc.), but with a few plugins you may find that
> you can get along without it.
>
> [1] http://www.mycgiserver.com/~objectlearn/products/lomboz.html
> [2]
> http://www-3.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=products/studio
>
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