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NetBeans is almost there. 4.1 offers serious competition to the commercial products PDF Print
Written by Content Team   
Apr 23, 2005 at 10:13 AM
NetBeans IDE 4.1 Release Candidate is now available for download and with its advanced J2EE and EJB support, it offers some serious competition to the commercial products. 

You can download just the NetBeans IDE 4.1 RC Installer (46.49 MB) or the NetBeans IDE 4.1 RC + AS 8.1 Bundle Installer (94.41 MB) or the NetBeans Mobility Pack RC Installer (18.26 MB).

Work done on the 4.1 Release Candidate consists mainly of stabilization of the core and on performance. The final release is scheduled for mid-May.

What do you think? With NetBeans 4.1's capabilities available for free, would you still consider buying products like IDEA, JDeveloper, JBuilder, etc.?

Reference:
>> 4.1 Release Plans
>> 4.1 Docs & Support
>> NetBeans 4.1 RC1 Download:
http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/download.php?type=4.1rc1
(Note the .php in the link)

Related:
>> Eclipse vs NetBeans
>> Is Sun taking the Microsoft way to capturing the Java IDE market with NetBeans?
User Comments
Comment by Guest on 2005-04-26 10:37:03
With NetBeans becoming so good and Eclipse not far behind, I can't see how the other vendors are going to sell their IDEs.  
 
I don't think this is as good a thing as it seems as innovation in the IDE space might soon get restricted to what 3 or 4 players would do.
Comment by Guest on 2005-05-10 21:45:44
One thing that NetBeans, at least last time I checked, still lacks is good F1 context sensitive help. One thing MS does very well is put good help at the fingertips of developers and I have yet to see a Java tool that could truly match it. 
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