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"Go to File" will be in Netbeans 6
More info: http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/where_have_all_the_daily
Hmm, does anyone know if it would be difficult to create such a plugin or something for NetBeans? I am not very familiar with its plugin architecture, but perhaps I need to get there. As we all know, Java EE, Spring and I18N files can be in abundance within a Java based project. It becomes very difficult to get to these files without a good shortcut.
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Goto file: CTRL-Shift-N
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/buy.html
Well, I already own IntelliJ IDEA 5. But there are several reasons I want to use NetBeans:
- It's free, no more upgrade fees.
- Support the effort by using it. Software like this only lives if people show a need.
- I can have as many copies of it running as I want. I currently have 3 machines in my home that I use for development. So, when I jump on any one of them and start working I don't want some notice popping up telling me I can't run my instances of IDEA concurrently. That is just annoying. An no, I am not going to put my computers on different subnets, or block the port at each machine's firewall. It's against the license, so that is the 'law'.
- Cutting edge features and a kick ass GUI dev tool. Now I am not a Swing guy. But, this is the greatest tool I have ever seen for GUI development with Swing components. The IDEA one is proprietary and I just can't seem to grok what they are trying to give me.
- They basically taking Java Studio Creator and giving us this functionality within NetBeans.
- Great Maven plugin!
- There is just too much to explain.





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2006-02-06
I am happy that they are also supporting OS X with the Enterprise Pack, C and C++ Pack, Profiler and the new Visual Web Pack! That is cool.
Now, does anyone know if there is an IntelliJ/Eclipse type shortcut for opening a file/resource within NetBeans? I can only find a "go to class" but I want a "go to file" and just can't seem to find such a shortcut. This is the ONLY feature that is stopping me from paying the IntelliJ tax.
But, again, I am really excited about this release.