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After Eclipse, NetBeans now targeting Borland JBuilder users

Written by Content Team

Aug 11, 2006 at 01:31 AM

With Borland no longer a major player in the Java IDE market, it's but natural for Borland JBuilder enthusiasts to start looking elsewhere. NetBeans has decided to target this migrating market and announced a free migration program from Borland JBuilder to NetBeans

NetBeans has put up manuals for how to make a clean migration from JBuilder to NetBeans and is also organizing a 2 day promotional workshop on the subject. Sun Developer Services is offering JBuilder users free access until October 14, 2006 to the Sun Developer Expert Assistance (DEA) program, an email–based service for getting programming advice, best practice guidance, sanity checks, and workarounds.

Not long back, NetBeans put up an import module for Eclipse users as well as case studies on Eclipse to NetBeans migration. There's even a dedicated "Switch" section at netbeans.org with a banner saying "Are you still in the dark? Shed light on your Java development".

With many Java IDE vendors dropping out of the race in the last few years, it's now looking more like a Coke vs Pepsi battle in the Java IDE market.

The top 10 reasons to switch to NetBeans, that are listed in the Why Switch section are:

1. Free, open-source IDE and Platform
2. The NetBeans GUI builder (project Matisse)
3. Mobility Pack
4. Projects Based on Ant
5. The NetBeans Profiler
6. Java Enterprise Edition Development
7. Team Development
8. It's Fast
9. It's Cool
10. Best out of box experience

The reasons have undergone a bit of a change since the time NetBeans launched the NetBeans switch campaign for Eclipse.

However Eclipse still has some 115 odd member companies while NetBeans is almost a 'Sun only' thing.

Some interesting times ahead, although the reduction in the number of IDE choices for the user, is a bit of a concern.

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User Comments

Comment by 'Guest' on 2006-08-11 06:29:14
NetBeans was always very good. Some time back Sun seemed to not be interested in NetBeans anymore. But the new Schwartz CEO Sun seems to be very keen on pushing NetBeans

Comment by Roman Strobl on 2006-08-11 09:56:47
Check out the NetBeans partner page... there's more than 120 partners listed:

[URL=http://www.netbeans.org/community/partners/index.html]http://www.netbeans.org/community/partners/index.html[/URL]

Including companies like AMD, JBoss, BlueJ, EBay, Ericsson, Nokia, Ricoh, MyEclipse and others.

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