eclipse vs Jbuider

[Simon Xu]

Besides the open source and pluggin, what are the advantages for eclipse, compared with Jbuilder? Thx

[Matthew Phillips]

From what I have read, the refactoring tool in JBuilder is not as good as the tool in Eclipse.

[Simon Xu]

how about the performance (speed)?

[Lasse Koskela]

Originally posted by Simon Xu:
how about the performance (speed)?

My experience has been that Eclipse beats the rest in performance ("measured" as GUI responsiveness), but it's been a while since I've used other IDEs so things might have changed. I'd suggest trying them out -- all vendors provide at least a trial download for their IDEs.

[Jeroen Wenting]

OTOH, if you like GUI builders and wizzards to do things for you, Eclipse might not be for you.
There are less fancy stuff generating reams of code (though there are probably a lot of plugins for it or you could write one yourself).