Do NetBeans users tend to be Java EE developers, Java SE, or Java ME?
TC: The thing about NetBeans is that it enables development end-to-end – from the phone handset to the big back-end server. You can create a Java ME, EE, or SE application with NetBeans. But, I’d have to say that we have more Java SE and EE developers but probably only because the market is larger in those areas. Our support for Java ME is very strong. The NetBeans Mobility Pack has gotten rave reviews and is ahead of the competition in almost every area. Swing used to, and still does, get beaten up quite a bit over being an emulated widget toolkit. Is this an issue for NetBeans, and are there any plans for SWT tooling? TC: Not an issue at all. People who are complaining about Swing have probably not used it in a long time. There have been HUGE improvements in JDK 5 (and there are more coming in JDK 6) that boosted performance and increased the ability of Swing applications to “look native” on a number of platforms. Being a 100% Swing application, NetBeans naturally benefits from those
