This is great and what a lot of us asked for (a plug-in either to Eclipse or Netbeans).
IF the same level of functionality will be available as a plug-in, then this should be a formidable IDE to say the least. I know that by 6.0 Netbeans will have everything in it that I've been looking for before I make a complete switch over from Eclipse which I still use to do most everything but JSF related work.
It would be nice to be able to standardize on one tool that can do everything.
I, personally, would love to see a plugin in for Eclipse. I feel it is a better and more powerful IDE. Sadly, I don't think that will be happening anytime in there near future. Maybe if creator is open sourced under a license which allows for modification and distribution with other products, but historically that is not what sun does.
I think it would be more productive if Sun made plugins for Eclipse and Netbeans. That would surely help the use of JSF and other Sun technologies spread. Again, I don't believe that falls under Sun's current business plan.
> Just curious. What do you like so much about Eclipse
> that Netbeans 5.0+ doesn't provide?
For me, one thing that I really like about Eclipse is it's hi-lighting capability.Click on a variable or methd name and all like variables or methods are hi-lighted.
This feature (and others) will be available in release 6.0 of Netbeans and at that time, I imagine that I will be making a switch as by then with the JSC plugin, and the ease of EJB 3.0 development, I expect Netbeans to be a far more capable IDE in terms of "do it all" ability.
> For me, one thing that I really like about Eclipse is
> it's hi-lighting capability.Click on a variable or
> methd name and all like variables or methods are
> hi-lighted.
No need to wait, you can do that now.
Try this: Click on a word and press Ctrl-F3. All the usages of that variable or method are highlighted.
To learn more about keyboard shortcuts, choose Help > Help Contents > Introduction and Setup > Keyboard Shortcuts > Editor Keyboard Shortcuts from the main menu
or go to
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/docs/help/2upd ate1/a11y/editor_shortcuts.html