NetBeans IDE

Does anyone out there use NetBeans to program java graphical applications?

The IDE is at the NetBeans website

I was interested to see what other people think, I was thinking of getting it to learn JSP, servlets and stuff like that, mainly for the java.

But I'm not sure whether to use that over the tomcat implementation, I have that but not installed, I was going to see what others think.

Any comments as to whether or not Netbeans is any good as a graphical IDE?

Thanks

Gavin

I used it for around 2 months for my third year project.

I liked it and continue to use it. It does however need a fair amount of power and it's slightly buggy. It won't crash on you, but it's code completion stuff ain't great.

And it's free ! I used it for servlet/jsp development. I didn't use the bundled server, I ran the tomcat server on a different machine, running linux and samba to access it.

all worked fine.

Gav

Great thanks, i think i'll download that.

It seems to look good, I just want something to mess around with servlets and jsp, i have the tomcat server, can i use that if i set it up on the same computer, do you know?

thanks again

Gavin

yup, it's no problem running tomcat on the same machine. I split it up, cause I prefer to develop in windows and actually deploy on linux.

Gav