NetBeans certainly came a long way in the past couple years, and I've used it as my "primary" IDE for about half of that time. The main behind-door-number-one reason? I LOVE the Matisse (that was a codename, now it's something dull like Swing GUI Designer - boooooring) designer.
I was a MyEclipse subscriber until my NetBeans revelation, and I let it drop after that, since NetBeans was "good enough," free, and had Matisse.
Apparently, I had been living under a rock since then (that a buddy of mine was kind enough to lift today). MyEclipse has Matisse! This cross-over functionality is friggin' sweet, as they say, and it appears to have all of the Matisse functions. Not Matisse-like. It's Matisse itself as far as I can tell (how'd they do that?).
Well, since so most of my clients are in Eclipse shops and MyEclipse is already the must-have toolkit for Eclipse, I can't find a reason to stick with NetBeans any longer. Pretty packaging, free, all that aside. Time to get some work done, and if I can now do it with the same thing the world is using, then all the better.
Off to find the tutorials, and if that works out like I hope, time to renew my subscription. MyEclipse isn't free, but then, things of value are not always. And I'm not too proud to say nice job by someone else and give them some dollars for it if it helps me out.
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