3.0 is a vast, vast improvement on 2.x and it uses barely any more RAM. Typically 100-150MB depending on how you tweak the params. I run it under -server as well which speeds it up a fair amount after a while.
Cas 
I just gave the NetBeans 4.0 daily build a try for the fun of it… it has improved quite a bit since I last checked the 3.x stream. The 4.0 builds are still very buggy (on Mac)… but the project structure is much nicer now that i don’t have to manually mount folders all over my filesystem.
I may switch to NetBeans when 4.0 is released so I can ditch that SWT hack.
I don’t use any of these… I use Edit+ (http://www.editplus.com/) which is very lightweight and easy to use…
Chman
I used Textpad, but JCreator does indeed look pretty nice. Too bad that all the nice stuff is in the pro version.
(My pc is way too slow for running something like Eclipse :-/)
Eclipse 2.x
and UltraEdit if I just want to do some quick change
on something.
Haven’t gotten around to undating to 3.0 yet.
Will do sometime this week I guess.
Seems like no one had complaints about it so far
Eclipse 3.0. Just upgraded from 2.0. Much nicer looking (cleaner). Still a bit…sluggish on my G4 800 iBook, but completely usable.
For quick stuff, vi + javac.
[quote]Eclipse 3.0. Just upgraded from 2.0.
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Does 3 remove the evil Satanic “remove all spaces from your code” hard-coded behaviour of the formatter? Or at the very least make it optional? i.e. everytime it sees:
gl.glVertex3f( 15f, 23f, 3f );
it replaces it with:
gl.glVertex3f(15f, 23f, 3f);
or even worse:
gl.glVertex3f(15f,23f,3f);
Puts code readability for complex bracketting right out the window. Really pisses me off that it destroys perfectly good source. Basic requirement of source code formatting : “if you don’t have an option for changing something, then DON’T change it” >:(.
[quote]Basic requirement of source code formatting : “if you don’t have an option for changing something, then DON’T change it” >:(.
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You really need to try out IDEA 
Argh! Just discovered that eclipse 2 is vastly inferior to JEdit! ;)…where’s my “global search and replace” gone? Have to change several strings in every file in a project … Gulp.
Hmm. Now I know what I should have said when people scoffed at me using JEdit as an IDE…
I wish they’d find themselves a half-competent webmaster to sort out eclipse.org - it’s still a trainwreck (like Omondo, just a little bit better). Can’t find any release notes for v3 :(. Also, no sign of the existence of debian packages :(. Looks like I’m stuck in that netherworld of using two IDE’s side by side now :(.
[quote]Argh! Just discovered that eclipse 2 is vastly inferior to JEdit! ;)…where’s my “global search and replace” gone?
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Hey, they call it ‘refactoring’ today!!
That would be great - if there were such an option on the refactoring menu. There isn’t :(.
Well, I have been using Eclipse for a long time… but it eats LOTS of memory so I changed to vim (vi improved). It has lots of “plugins” and very very fast.
I use Eclipse 3.0 for everything, large and small. The slow startup time is a small price to pay for the intellisense (I know that’s an MS word :P) and code completion.
It is so cool to hit CTRL and hover the mouse over a method to see the code in a tooltip. And a million other little things.
I think Herk’ was assuming that you probably wanted to do a “Rename” refactoring.
still no GEL… :
[quote]still no GEL… :
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No more spaces, and not enough GEL requests to knock off any of the others :(.
I suggest you find someone from our so-called “community board”, force them to have a “board meeting” and get them to replace YABB with a better bb system ;).
Please don’t. Remember the last time our forums were “improved”? Every time we get upgraded, we loose some functionality. Heck, I still think the original forums were best. But nooooo, everyone needed something “better”, where “better” meant “prettier”.
Not that I’m despondent or anything… >:(
LOL yes, OK. The JGO definition of “upgrade”:
A change to the system that either removes existing functionality, introduces bugs that didn’t exist before, or deletes data that once existed and makes in unrecoverable (remember the lost newbies section?).
Thesaurus entry:
…
Opposites: See “upgrade” in any normal dictionary.
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;D
use jbuilder does it all. ive never had hassle with it. i
do like xcode on macosx mind. so i use that when im on
the hippy kit.