I've been using NetBeans quite for a long time before and after Eclipse, and actually liked the way it comes as one bundle of everything Web developer may need. In Eclipse, engineer is forced to find all pieces of the so needed software to put them together, while NetBeans does this job for you.
Apparently, this part did not change, but many others did. So, Eclipse - latest Galileo with Subclipse and Maven plugin. NetBeans - latest 6.7.1. Love fast track to coding from NetBeans. Love so missed dark theme (TextMate people will understand me :-)
But heck, why Maven project builds from command line but does not build from NetBeans? Why if project IS build, NetBeans shows zero errors and works great, otherwise pages are so reddish of errors? Why if I added/changed classes right click on project and "reload" does not help but IDE restart does? Why Cmd+Space takes so much time for "Indexing..."? Why can't I generate stubs of hashCode and toString without installing separate plugins? Are we what - trying to be "plugin for everything" now? Literally, I was so full with "why's" so I ran Eclipse in parallel. So, what do I miss? Right, I miss at least one neat thing - dark themes. Okay, so I Googled for that a little bit, yes, Eclipse still didn't make it easier than importing FULL preferences... So I got somebody's dark theme and adopted for myself (I'll upload it somewhere soon so everybody could see and try it out). Other than that - yes, very ugly, but Eclipse just did work fine for my regular needs. Weird! Eclipse is still so so for Ruby. RadRails helps, but it's still a heavyweight in this RoR world. So sticking to old TextMate... If only it could do Java better... :-)
