Bearfruit

I teach a class on Java to my fellow employees, I use BlueJ to start the class, then move on to a full featured IDE. University prof buddy said students were all using Eclipse, so I set up the class to use it. BUT now that I’m seeing NetBeand 6.1, I’m going to switch horses and use it instead, though I’ll still present an Eclipse overview.

For me it’s the GUI editor. You have to backtrack a version and use a plugin to do it with Eclipse. NetBeans has a BlueJ edition, so easy segue from BlueJ -> NetBeans BlueJ edition -> NetBeans 6.1. Plus the UML capability looks good - though haven’t exercised it much other than to create a class diagram. I wonder how well the “round trip” really works - Rational (now part of IBM) always pushed this concept. I do get weary of drilling through all of the framework rhetoric in Eclipse - I just want to build Java applications. If I were a tool builder and needed an open source framework to roll out my stuff, then I’d be more of an Eclipse fan I suppose.