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Matthew Woodward  //  * CFML, Grails, and Java Developer
* Principal IT Specialist, US Senate
* Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member
* All-Around Geek

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Oct 15 / 11:09am

IntelliJ IDEA :: The Best Java IDE Now Free and Open Source

by Matthew Woodward
We believe IntelliJ IDEA to be the best Java IDE on the market — and the world will only gain if more people start using it. That's why we decided to remove the main barrier — the price tag, and introduce the upcoming version 9 in two editions.
via jetbrains.com

Completely awesome news. I've been doing Grails in NetBeans and it's decent, but the HTML editor in NetBeans is kind of irritating. I've used IntelliJ on and off but this gives me serious motivation to move from Eclipse. Wonder how that CFML plugin for IntelliJ is coming along ...

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Oct 10 / 7:55am

Poll Result: Eclipse and NetBeans Are the Most Used IDEs | Java.net

by Matthew Woodward

This past week's java.net poll suggests that Eclipse and NetBeans lead the way among IDEs, and are about equally popular. A total of 528 votes were cast. The exact question and results were:

Which IDE do you use?

  • 39% (207 votes) - NetBeans
  • 41% (216 votes) - Eclipse
  • 8% (42 votes) - Another IDE
  • 7% (38 votes) - Multiple of the above
  • 4% (21 votes) - I use a text editor
  • 1% (4 votes) - Other

The results suggest that NetBeans and Eclipse share a predominate position among IDEs, and are used by at least 80% of Java developers.

via weblogs.java.net

What's surprising to me about these numbers is the percentage of people using NetBeans--I wouldn't have guessed it would have been so high. I've been using NetBeans for Grails development and it's definitely more lightweight than Eclipse, but overall it's not as polished in my opinion. The Grails functionality is NetBeans beats Eclipse hands-down, however.

Now if only there were a CFML plugin for NetBeans. Ah, the things I could accomplish if I had unlimited time ...

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