"A few months ago OSNews reported that the next version of Java (code name 'Mustang') will feature native GTK components for the Swing API. This got us excited since, quite frankly, Swing's GTK look and feel has always been quite dissapointing. We downloaded the latest release candidate of JDK 1.6 to see how well the Swing GTK look and feel looks, we were quite pleased with what we found."
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Member since:2005-07-06
I'm using 3.1.1 on Windows XP, and 3.1 Linux and OSX. I have a celeron 2ghz with 1gb of ram, that I dual boot to run Windows XP and Linux. My Mac is an iMAC 1.7 single core with 1gb of memory.
On the windows machine Eclipse and Netbean are pretty close in speed for general tasks (I am a J2EE developer). My feeling that Netbeans is faster mostly has to do with the fact that Eclipse's workspace refreshes (I may as well get coffee when this happens), are very resource intensive, and block some operations in the IDE.
On Linux and OSX I don't even feel like it is a contest. Netbeans (on Linux and OSX), and JDeveloper on OSX, beats Esclipse hands down on my systems.
I like many things about Esclipse and like I said in my last post the plugin support is awesome. I also do all of my RoR development in Eclipse and find its subversion support (via tigris) fantastic. Just don't tell me it is snappy.
Edited 2006-02-13 17:50
Member since:2005-12-28
Well, it's of course slower than Visual Studio 6, Delphi, etc. But I found it to be much snappy than NetBeans 5, IDEA 5 and some others. On those others, the GUI feels "heavy". Of course it's a totally subjective opinion.
btw, I'm using eclipse 3.1.2 on win xp and my specs are far from high end: AthlonXP 2200, 512RAM, XP SP2.
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2005-07-06
I'm forced to develop in Eclipse for some of my projects, and end up spending at least 3 hours a day in it.
And while I find Eclipse's plug-in support to be great, I am always floored when I hear people call Eclipse snappy!!?!!? I develop in Eclipse, Netbeans, and JDeveloper, and I have never found Eclipse to snappy. It is IMO slower then any IDE I have ever used.