While I'd like to say "But, but, but,... Eclipse has an RCP (rich
client platform) too!", my experiences with using it to create
standalone apps hasn't been all that great.... I think it's mostly
SWT rather than Swing/AWT, and I haven't really noticed that it's made
life any easier.
-Mike
On 2/8/06, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> When I recently discovered the progress NetBeans had made, first
> thought was of course - how can we use it in CayenneModeler development.
>
> At the moment Eclipse is still a superior IDE and I have no plans to
> switch from it personally, but NetBeans is also a Swing *platform*.
> Essentially they've created the same thing Eclipse did - a GUI plugin
> shell. So aside from using a GUI builder (which may or may not be
> good - this is still to be determined), the benefit would be an open
> pure java platform that other people can extend.
>
> My thinking is that CayenneModeler switching to NetBeans would be
> equivalent to changing our docs system from CVS/XML to Wiki - the
> rate of community contribution will grow up significantly.
>
> I have no plans to do it immediately (and don't yet have enough
> NetBeans knowledge to make such a decision), but I thought I'd bring
> it up.
>
> Andrus
>
>
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