Review Of NetBeans IDE

I am a beginning java-based web application developer. I use javascript, xml, xhtml, css, servlet, jsp,and mysql all the time along my projects. Currently, I just switched to use Netbeans IDE to develop my project. I am very happy about this IDE.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 at work and at school to develop c++ console based software. I have been satisfied about how powerful the visual studio is. However, it is not cheap to buy one. Microsoft Visual studio forsure has more functions than those opensource IDEs have, although I have not used all of their functions yet. I have heard that developers can easily work on the same code on the visual studio, it eases the collaboration between developers. As a single developer, I dont gain all the benefit from it.

I used Adobe's Dreamweaver CS4 before for the front end web development. To be honest, it is complicated. I spent almost 400 Canadian dollars to buy this student version Adobe web premium, and I am not fully satisfied with the Dreamweaver come with it. It is a powerful software that you can use it to view the layout of your website and everything, but it is not for a developer. As a developer, one usually prefers a simple interface and more viewing space to look at as much code as possible at the same time without scrolling the bar. To me, I do not need the design view to develop a website. other than that, I do not think how much more powerful the dreamweaver is than anything else.

I used to use eclipse for other java development too. It is such a ease of use IDE for developers. plus it is open source. I am just not happy with the current version that they used on the open source ubuntu linux. The windows and mac version of Eclipse is already 3.5, whereas in the ubuntu linux repository, it still uses 3.2.

Netbean is different; it mainly focuses on java developer and web developers. As a developer, I do not think one would need any other functions that Netbeans is lack of. Even when you work on the XMLHttpRequest object that Ajax requires, or javascript function, it still supports them. Since Netbeans is produced by Sun, even on the linux and solaris version of OS, you still have the latest version available