Which is better

Development
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Which is better to use, Eclipse or NetBeans.

I am just going to start playing with jME but I don't know which is better to use.

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I guess it is very much a personal choice. I have lousy experience from distant past with netbeans and currently work with eclipse and am very happy. However I am sure NetBeans has been improved during the past years :slight_smile:



Also the only difference that comes to mind worth mentioning atm is that NetBeans (I think) has a good built in profiler, while Eclipses's plugin (which you have to install separately) is reported to suck or is very difficult to use.

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Also the only difference that comes to mind worth mentioning atm is that NetBeans (I think) has a good built in profiler, while Eclipses's plugin (which you have to install separately) is reported to suck or is very difficult to use.


I have the v3.3.2 of Eclipse, do you know a good profiler that really works with it ? (I tried many profilers on the previous version and it worked with no problem.)
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No sorry… Core-Dump tried one I think and was disappointed… I myself never got one running (well never gave it a serious try either ). Using YourKit myself



But back on the topic of IDE-s… just install them both and give a short try  :smiley:

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i couldn’t get Eclipses TPTP plugin to work with a reasonable performance.



but jProfiler seems really nice also.

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Thanks

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I use the free (beta) version of “Yourkit Java Profiler”, which is the only one I found that work for Eclipse on OSX and it turned out to be really good. Easy to use, nice integration, good performance and everything.



Link:

http://www.yourkit.com/

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vaagear, it also depends on what else you want to program in the Java universe. if you ever want to make Rich-Client-Applications, i cant hurt to know your way around Eclipse.



From a personal standpoint: I always prefer the software that a few geeks wrote to one that comes from a big "evil" company … like Sun  :wink:



so long,

Andy