Apache NetBeans vs Eclipse IDE Comparison

NetBeans is good to develop java swing applications.

NetBeans stay in shadow the Eclipse IDE.

It is complete ide with all the modern coding tool like code refactoring, debugging, version control etc.

It very heavy ide. It is less user friendly than eclipse and does not has strong support team as eclipse and vs code has.

This is almost similar to Eclipse IDE. I liked how it merged with various components like hibernate and lot of other financial tools.

There was an issue with our application not being stable. Our entire team faced this problem ultimately it was decided to get different framework altogether.

the most classic editor of codes, standing out for java and C language; To create Screens in Swing (in Eclipse there is VEP, but netbeans is much better). Lighter and configurable compared to other IDE.

it lacks the varieties of plugins that currently other IDE have, integrations with git and other platforms such as slack.

- Open source- ease use- platform support- Swing GUI

- performance- limited languages- Competiton (eclipse)

it is a good java ide that allow quicly some complex operation

miss many plugin that are available on eclipse

NetBeans is easy to use and install. I used it mainly on the Windows platform, and I used it mainly to develop Java software and Java GUI Applications with Swing. Compared to other tools on the market, I think NetBeans has the best Swing support of all the IDEs I have tried (Eclipse tools have more bugs, Visual Studio Code does not natively support them). Its debugging tools are easy to use and very functional.

NetBeans is usually slow to load and can be a resource hog. When working on my Mac laptop, battery drains quickly. I had many bugs using NetBeans v12 on Mac. I kept from updating to the newest version because I felt they were more stable for my workflow.

IDE size it´s okay and it does not take many resorces of my computer, it has the same tools that many others Java IDE´s have but free, also this would be a good IDE to start learning java

so, there are errors that don´t happen in other IDE with the same code, GUI needs to be reimagined

I've tested a lot of versions of IDE for Java such as Eclipse, JEdit, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, etc. and NetBeans is the easiest application in terms of installation, usage, check-in, and check-out from source controls such as SVN. It is very easy to add new libraries and switch among different Java platforms. The IntelliSense in NetBeans is great for code assistance. And NetBeans is a free application for download.

NetBeans may require a lot of resources if you have many projects concurrently open. NetBeans Low on Memory is a very well known error.

1) Git integration 2) functional and class tracking 3) Good Error reporting

1) Sometime slow 2) Get hangs when large files are open 3) Scaning for external changes takes too long

Very simple to use and love the GUI tool built in. It allows us to build our simple programs that do tasks for us.

Updates are a little slower than products like Eclipse and IntelliJ but I would say it works very good.

The GUI is very good for beginner, with lots of starter plugins and features Netbeans is one the best IDE for junior programmer

Sometimes there will be a problem when you install the newest JDK and the Netbeans's version isn't fully support the newest JDK version. So sometimes I have to degrade the JDK version.

First of all Apache NetBeans is free and open source. While being a free and open source IDE it is packed with features I needed as a Java developer. And the user interface is straightforward. Integration to Git is really good. Code auto completion feature is a very helpful feature. Being able to open several projects at once and explore those is also a very helpful feature.

I have only one problem with NetBeans which is not being able to theme the IDE according to my desire. Themeing options they have given in the IDE is not enough.

First of all, it is totally free. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX. When you write a program, you can edit, compile and debug on any other operation systems. It's perfect feature. User interface is very easy to use. Support community is enough.

It has differences with regular netbeans. Help pages and tutorial pages are organized very badly. Finding a thing is very difficult.

Easy to use, and has a good user interface. Lighter-weight than some of it's counterparts.

It's not as popular as Eclipse, so the support community and plugins for it are a bit more lacking.

Apache Netbeans is a great IDE for Java. It's not just a text editor, it's the whole development environment, and one of the best choices for Java developers. And not only that, you can also develop in other languages like C/C++, Javascript, Ruby, ... Debuggin with this IDE is not only easy, but great, as you can check the state of all program and find that bug which is causing the problem. The intelli-sense and code completion is great. It's easy to add plugins to Apache Netbeans.

The loading time is somewhat long, and the IDE consumes many RAM.

NetBeans is free easy and efficient. It supports multiple languages. Available on multiple platform such as Linux, Mac, Windows. I do not have to install additional software or plugins to develop GUI since NetBeans comes with that ability. Has rich plugin library. It has real time debugging ability. NetBeans can suggest options and it perform selected options automatically for fix bugs.

It require lots of system resources. It takes too much time to compile and run heavy projects sometime becomes "not responding". It is better to add few new themes such as dark themes.

Il software è molto semplice e intuitivo da usare, rispetto ad altri IDE

La funzione di ricerca testo nel file corrente, se usata molte volte in modo ravvicinati, fa bloccare il software

New Users adapts to this IDE interface very easily. This IDE have several tools which allows to make development faster. JUnit Integration helps in testing the programs. Other integrations with maven, glassfish server etc are also possible.

The full software is big and so consumes lot of system resources. Therefore it works slow on old computers. Also the learning curve is very big. There are so many features that only professionals can use them.

Its ease of use and its suitable for developers of different levels that is from amateurs to pros. It is relatively fast in loading

Too many configurations needed and the price is a bit high

Apache Netbeans is my favorite Java IDE for developing Java Desktop applications. Netbeans has a very user friendly interface with a specialized palette containing the different Swing GUI components that can be added to the application in a Drag-and-Drop fashion making the desktop GUI development very simplistic and rapid. The code auto-completion is also very decent though some advancements can still be incorporated to make it much better. Linking the desktop application to Web and Database servers is also very intuitive which makes Netbeans a complete Java IDE for rapid application development.

Code auto completion can be enhanced with auto package importing as we witness in Google's Android Studio IDE. Moreover the performance is a bit laggy and crippled with the increase in the number of threads. This is a typical Java pattern as Netbeans is developed in Java itself.

Powerful GUI for Swing development which handles refactoring automatically.

Netbeans as room for improvement for general java development. Not the friendliest IDE for quick java development

1.) Intellisense in the IDE makes it easy to code. 2.) The extensive amount of libraries are available. 3.) GUI components like swing and AWT makes it easy to construct the graphics based application. 4.) Support to C++ libraries makes it a multilingual IDE. 5.) Very less amount of resources are required to run Netbeans.

1.) Initial startup of the IDE is extremely slow as compared to other available IDE's. 2.) Additional plugins are required to develop advanced java applications. 3.)It is very resource hungry.

apache is open-source and free to use, provide basic IDE for development in several languages

not great UI compared with it's competitors

Its free. Nothing more than the fact that it is free.

Absolute waste of time. I have unfortunately enough been forced to learn through Netbeans and can honestly advise any willing soul to listen not to install it. Implementation and use is simple; perfectly defining the application. It is not efficient, good, or useful. It is simple and takes away 95% of the power that java code has and utilises. This software, in my opinion, is comparable to a middle...

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My main use of Eclipse is in the field of Java desktop and server-side development on Linux and MAC. Eclipse provides basic IDE services for Java developers which augments code auto-completion (not very responsive/intelligent), debugging, unit testing, and profiling services that supports rapid application development on the desktop. I used Eclipse for developing Servlet, JSP, and EJB server-side code...

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Eclipse is still lagging in terms of code autocompletion compared to other popular Java IDEs such as Apache NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA. Many developers are migrating from Eclipse to those IDE due to this reason. Eclipse will surely stay as the legacy Java IDE especially that the Eclipse project is adding support for other programming environments other than Java, but the user base is definitely not as large as it was in the previous 10 years or so.

Stiamo parlando di un ambiente di sviluppo e quindi destinato a sviluppatori. Nonostante questo non mi è sembrato il migliore. Ho preferito netbeans, è più pesante ma più completo

Non mi ha mai convinto del tutto nonostante la stabilità e la richiesta di risorse rispetto ad altri ide

I loved the fact that most of the tools to do any Java-based or even pyton-based development are free in this IDE. It gives a good introduction to new developers especially in the startup context.

There are now much better IDE's that are capable of better memory management. Unfortunate eclipse has slowly been getting heavier and heavier and has become as overweight as netbeans.

Lo he podido comparar con netbeans y eclipse lo veo mucho más potente a la hora de realizar aplicaciones. he usado también la version enterprise para servidores backend hechos con java y está muy bien, un poco la curva de aprendizaje como que cuesta, y configurar librerías de terceros tambien puede llegar a frustrar

Es muy bueno para programar en java pero no lo recomiendo para nada si se quiere hacer una aplicación en android, para eso mejor usar android studio

Eclipse is a powerful IDE that has a large number of functions and a multitude of views and settings. The Eclipse framework is also used in other products like dbeaver, Apache DS and therefor familiar to people with those tools. It is an extensible product with add-ons like Integration Studio makes it a versatile tool.

Eclipse has a large number of perspectives, views and so on. This makes it a bit hard to navigate between all the options. The stability sometimes also has issues. Especially when you have a large number of open windows. The options are not always directly clear as to what each option will do (e.g. a number of options have the same truncated name like maven build )

The best feature about eclipse is its interface which is basic, clean and easy to understand. This IDE is very lightweight in terms of consuming processors. Most helpful user for this IDE will be a student because for a beginner this IDE provide enough features and it does not confuse the user by showing complex architecture and multiple options, If you are a student then I hardly recommend you this IDE.

The thing which I did not like the most is that It does not have a javascript debugger or a live server plugin as we have in netbeans and visual studio code, while developing a website a faced multiple problems in javascript writing because I can not see the errors at the time of writing, I think this is the only disadvantage in my opinion.