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Re:Ask HN: Reasonable Java editor for heavily CLI-oriented U... by whacked_new on Thursday May 07, 2009 @12:36AM (#597422)
If you jumped from Eclipse to NetBeans, there wasn't any pain from the different plugin offerings? I don't enjoy installing two IDEs for the same language, but that's what I end up doing, unhappily.
Re:Ask HN: Reasonable Java editor for heavily CLI-oriented U... by _sh on Thursday May 07, 2009 @01:46AM (#597510)
No pain at all. I don't rely heavily on plugins though. The important bases were covered: refactoring, vcs integration, and the usual javadoc/outlining.

Perhaps the only things I missed were getting a method's signature when you hover over it with the mouse, and the live variable value when you hover in debug mode. But these are so minor that I feel if they're not already there and I somehow haven't set them up, they'll be in the next release. But as I said, I get so much more confidence by being able to charge in to my code's runtime and poke around that it's worth it.