The IDE rivalry continues as NetBeans adds more improvements

The NetBeans IDE enjoys a solid base
 of users and generous backing and development from Sun. With competition from IDEs 
 such as Eclipse and 
 IntelliJ IDEA, it’s no surprise that work to extend and improve it is ongoing.

In late March there was an interesting chat called What’s New and Cool in NetBeans?. The questions
 were answered by NetBeans technology lead Ian Formanek and Sun senior product manager Larry Baron. The topics were genuinely interesting.

• Plug-in compatibility between Eclipse and NetBeans
• Support for J2ME application development
• Changes between versions 3.6 and 4.0
• Support for JavaServer Faces development
• GUI editor
• Language versions of the IDE, including plans for a Czech localization

Jirka Hradil’s reports are also worth a look. NetBeans 3.6 final , NetBeans 3.6 RC1 and NetBeans Refactoring Preview.
He’s been keeping a careful eye on NetBeans.

JDeveloper 10g is out

There’s plenty going on with IDEs, as shown by the official release of the commercial 
 IDE JDeveloper 10g. Shay Shmelzer covers the release and many of the new features in Oracle releases Oracle JDeveloper 10g Production.