Rating and comments for NetBeans IDE

While I understand that many people consider Eclipse to be the de-facto Java development platform, NetBeans fits the way I work. In my opinion, NetBeans is more intuitive and just as powerful as its competitors.

When starting Java, I suggest developers try both Eclipse and NetBeans before choosing their development environment.

I tried NetBeans but it didn't work out for me. That's why I use Eclipse. But NetBeans really has some nice features so you have to decide yourself which one to choose to match your needs.

My favourite Java IDE. I agree with Bilfurd and fully recommend trying latest version.

I love NetBeans! Where Eclipse is unintuitive NetBeans is not. It even has a gui editor that created all the GUI code foe you!

This is a great IDE for Java. I didn't like Eclipse so much, but this one does everything I want it to.

Excellent editor, also for PHP.