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NetBeans wins three awards in "Developer.com's Product of the Year, 2008"
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In summary,
NetBeans takes home 3, Firfox beats Ant, PostgreSQL touts Oracle/MySQL, Google Maps maintains lead. It's really interesting...
Some of the results were unexpected. Some went for a thrilling finish. Overall it's java the ultimate winner.
For example, I expected Apache Ant to win the "Develop Utility" award, expected Eclipse to win more than one award because of it's diverse ecosystem and thought MySQL would easily ramp home.
But the results contradicted some of my views.
And the most surprising was the fact that NetBeans stole the limelight with 3 awards.
It was chosen as the "Best Development Tool", beating the likes of MyEclipse and Intelli IDEA.But I wonder why Eclipse was not even an option here?. Because NetBeans and Subversion were the only open source products in this category, and the remaining were commercial products.Having Eclipse at the expense of Subversion would have been a better choice, because, subversion looked odd man out here as the rest nominees were development environments.
NetBeans was an obvious winner in the "Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in" category, as it provides first class support to mobile technologies.
But the most interesting contest was in the "Java Tool or Add-in" category. The fact that both Eclipse and NetBeans were nominees made this the most sought out contest.
Though NetBeans won by a slight margin (by nearly 2% more votes), over Eclipse, we must appreciate both these open source projects which are invaluable tools in any developers suite.
It's amazing though to see NetBeans making huge strides.Anyone who used during it's pre 4.1 times would'nt have expected this. Kudos to the nebeans folks. Great work guys, keep up the momentum.
Overall, it's great news for the Java Community and Sun. It looks the shining days are back at Sun.
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Overall it's java the ultimate winner....this is what i like most!!Re: NetBeans wins three awards in "Developer.com's Product of the Year
NetBeans is great...now if only Sun would fix Swing's font rendering issues. The difference on Ubuntu running NB and Eclipse is quite striking in terms of L&F fidelity...you think if they have a billion $$$ to pay for a free DB, they could spend 100K to hire some guru and fix up Swing once and for all...Re: NetBeans wins three awards in "Developer.com's Product of the Year
Netbeans made great progress recently. The (J)Ruby features are awesome. unfortunately, due to this bug:http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=119617
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I can't event use Netbeans 6 anymore because it hangs to often. General editing performance on Linux also seems quite bad.
Am I the only crazy one having this bug or is anyone able to use Netbeans 6 seriously now? Several other people reported the bug. So may be we are only a few victims (not on windows?) but the result for us is that we can't simply use the great features. Sad for now unfortunately.
Raphaël Valyi.
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I always support the Eclipse.Re: NetBeans wins three awards in "Developer.com's Product of the Year, 2008"
The year 2008 is still long. At the end will be summed up.Re: NetBeans wins three awards in "Developer.com's Product of the Year
> I always support the Eclipse.I always support the best tool to get my job done.
For java coding, i prefer Eclipse.
For swing/web/ejb development, i prefer NetBeans.