Will you betray, Eclipse users?

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#21

Ah a nice thread derailment!

I will (again) say one thing about Maven poms: I don’t write them, I copy/paste them. All my poms are nearly identical with tiny variations here and there (generally which dependencies are included and on what scope). I don’t see how beyond your first attempts at using Maven you spend much time on setting stuff up, its usually a matter of 5 minutes for me and with those 5 minutes I also setup a proper Eclipse workspace with 90% of the build settings correctly in place. Its just too bad that the m2eclipse plugin sets some wonky defaults :confused:

There were some really excellent pom templates here on the site somewhere.

#22

Am i the only netbeans fan boy here?

I hate eclipse interface.Tried to change it.Still hate it.

#23

Used to use netbeans, switched to eclipse for libgdx. Both work fine for me, both have their advantages and disadvantages.

#24

As long as there wasn’t a massive practical advantage to switching, I’d keep using Eclipse if only to avoid having yet another egg in the Google basket, so to speak.

#25

Netbeans used to be my favorite. The main feature that pushed me to IntelliJ is Maven/Gradle/SBT support. All my projects have dependencies and using one of those IDE-neutral build systems is a must.

IntelliJ handles complex mega Maven projects I work on without problems. NetBeans has Maven support, but it hasn’t worked as well for me. I didn’t spend the time to really identify specifically what breaks it.

Gradle natively supports generating project data for IntelliJ and Eclipse but not NetBeans. IntelliJ also has support to natively read Gradle projects, but it is limited to very simple projects and even doing something simple like using a variable for a dependency version, will break it.

#26

I like netbeans in that it’s stable and consistent, and for JavaEE stuff was really nice back in the day, while Eclipse WTP was was really more like “Eclipse WTF”. Since I stopped doing serious JavaEE work, it’s all a wash. IDEA is more like what I wished netbeans would become, so since I decided to spend the cash on IDEA Ultimate, I haven’t had any reason to go anywhere else (especially since it also comes with a very nice Python IDE that I also use now and then)