Moving from Netbeans to Eclipse

[swebb99]

Hi there,

I'm a long time Netbeans user but for the current project I need to
switch to Eclipse. I was wondering if someone could point me in the
direction of any good guides or articles on the main differences and
whats involved in conversion (any mindset changes and so on).

Also I notice that the installation text mentioned JDK 1.4.2 does this
mean that I can't use JDK 1.5 with eclipse as thats all I've got
installed at the moment.

I notice there is a VE plugin for Swing GUI building is this the tool
of choice for building swing apps in eclipse.

Thanks

Steve

 

[Rhino]

Hi there,

I'm a long time Netbeans user but for the current project I need to
switch to Eclipse. I was wondering if someone could point me in the
direction of any good guides or articles on the main differences and
whats involved in conversion (any mindset changes and so on).

Also I notice that the installation text mentioned JDK 1.4.2 does this
mean that I can't use JDK 1.5 with eclipse as thats all I've got
installed at the moment.

I notice there is a VE plugin for Swing GUI building is this the tool
of choice for building swing apps in eclipse.

I've never used Netbeans or VE so I can't answer your first and third
questions but I can tell you that Eclipse supports JDK 1.5; I've been using
Eclipse for three or four years now and I've been using a version that
supports JDK 1.5 for many months.

 

[James McGill]

I notice there is a VE plugin for Swing GUI building is this the tool
of choice for building swing apps in eclipse.

I've tried to use it, but it is completely broken on my platform.

 

[swebb99]

Hi thanks for the replies.

I've got it up and running on XP and the VE is working in a fashion,
its really clunky compaired to Netbeans though I installed it on
Ubuntu also but the VE just wouldn't work correctly (no pallete list
shown!), it also ground Ubuntu to a halt all the time.

The footprint seems to be a fair bit larger and on my laptop eclipse in
general seems to run really slow and takes an age to boot. The editor
is nice and quick though. I was suprised it doesn't come with an
installer and you have to unzip it manually.

I've got to use it for a while and I'll give it the benefit of doubt so
far but at the moment I think its seems a bit a bit old fashioned
compaired to Netbeans 5.0 and 5.5. The GUI builder is like going back
in the dark ages. However I'm prepaired to beleive that so far I've
only touched the surface of it and I'll find it a lot more easy to use
when I get my head round it. Working out how to get it to use the 15.4"
monitor space better would be a good starting point.

One point how do I see the API doc for a method when I see the list of
methods thats opened when I partially type a method name ????

Cheers

Steve

 

[Ben]

One point how do I see the API doc for a method when I see the list of
methods thats opened when I partially type a method name ????

Control space.

 

[swebb99]

Thanks Ben,

it turned out i'd selected jdk 1.5 as jdk of choice and I'd forgotten
to download the doc.zip file .... doh !

Steve

 

[WillemF]

There are several good books on Eclipse available from Amazon.com. I
use the one by D'Anjou: it is a compete reference, including approaches
to customise Eclipse itself.
You can set the Java compiler version from within the Run
Initialisation panel to any version from JDK1.1 to JDK 1.5. I mostly
work with JDK 1.5. The learning curve is a bit steeper than is the case
for IDEs for primitive languages such as VB, but the time spent is
worth it over and over.
Check the Internet for MyEclipse Matisse (www.myeclipseide.com). This
is a relatively inexpensive subscription service that includes a UI
builder on top of Eclipse. Kind regards, Willem Ferguson.