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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>The IDE Wars</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"/></head><body><div class="sect1" title="The IDE Wars"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="learnjava3-APP-A-SECT-1"/>The IDE Wars</h1></div></div></div><p><a id="I_indexterm_id837693" class="indexterm"/>Comparing IDEs on features alone is futile because all
modern IDEs are based on a plug-in architecture that allows new tools to
be added by third parties. Saying that an IDE has feature X is just an
invitation for someone to retort that her IDE has plug-ins for X and Y.
Still, it is worth taking a moment to draw some comparisons here (if we
dare). In this book, we have used both the NetBeans 7.2 and Eclipse 4.2
editors. How do they stack up? The short answer is that, at the time of
this writing, Eclipse is more popular and a bit more polished at the
expense of being platform-dependent, whereas the latest release of
NetBeans offers a few more advanced features out of the box. NetBeans offers a visual application builder
and a web application development environment. Of course, you can add
those to Eclipse, but you must choose from (possibly pay-ware)
alternatives. Another important feature of NetBeans 4.x is that it uses a
fully externalized Ant build process. This means that you can build your
application inside or outside of the IDE in exactly the same way. With
that said, let’s move on to Eclipse.</p></div></body></html>