Perhaps a NetBean's loyal user, pointed out in his blog, and the user of Eclipse is turning to NetBean. He first pointed out two Eclipse Foundation (still IBM) absurd:
Eclipse is fast, and NetBean is slow; SWT is fast, while Swing is slow;
This blogger pointed out that "Eclipse's subsequent versions are getting slower and more resource. However, NetBean 3.5 will become faster. The performance problem with Eclipse is already a very serious question. Eclipse Organizations are concerned with ease of use, but also to face a large number of accuses for the availability of performance and non-Windows platforms. However, Swing NetBean and Intellij show a good performance and provide a lot of competitiveness. Even the lack of Eclipse. "
He also lists some questions on the Eclipse performance or usability of Eclipse users in Blog or Eclipse buglist and Q / A (this author thinks it is some accusations). At the same time, a survey on Javalobby pointed out that "SWT is designed and defective". More think, SWT is just the level of AWT in 7 years ago.
I have been using Eclipse and Eclipse-based WSAD / RAD. I also read INTELLIJ occasionally, but just simply read NetBean (4.0), it is basically not used. It is not very concerned about this blogger. For SWT and AWT, in a topic report in EclipseCon2005, Eclipse's developers say that "hate and screwdriver, which is more useful? Different places use different tools, SWT and AWT are also the case." I think that Eclipse's developers say more reasonably. The SWT pays attention to the close combination of the operating system to provide Look & Feel consistent with the operating system. And AWT is more focused on platform-independent, thereby adopting unified Look & Feel. Both are not very good.
Is the user of Eclipse in turning to NetBean? I dare not say, but at least I will not. Perhaps use Intellij in some time (it does have some features that Eclipse don't have, such as better refactoring features), but will never be better because swings are better than SWT, or faster.
As for the "accusality" proposed to Eclipse performance and usage, I think this is a valuable comment for Eclipse. ECLIPSE's release will have a related performance test report. The performance report of M5a has indeed shown that 3.1 to 3.0 has declined in performance. This problem, I believe that the next version will improve or even completely solve it. More importantly, Eclipse / SWT is open source, not only IBM is said. Swing / AWT as part of JRE was not disclosed by Sun as Java (although now downloaded to J2SE5 source code, there is no 100% public. In fact, after J2SE5 release, the Java community is also in the Java community after J2SE5. There is even proposed to override Swing). If swings are not disclosed, how to compare with open source SWT?
