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Wednesday, 6 November 2002

Eclipse Vs. IDEA - Russ is looking at both IDEs. Everytime people say how good Eclipse is, I go try it - then come back to IDEA. Feature for feature, they look very similar. IDEA is not an IDE though, it's an experience. Until you learn all the keys and what it does for you - you won't experience it. Have you tried selecting some code and doing <ctrl><alt><v>? (I found that yesterday and used it many times already today) Do you understand how to use all the refactorings? Can your IDE to introspection into WARs and code complete JSP tags from the web.xml file? (That is seriously cool) Does it introspect into JSP tags (TagExtraInfo classes) and know in it's JSP completion what variables are valid? Does it think for you? (IDEAs completion is very smart - it will only suggest classes that match the current assignment etc) IDEA is awesome, unfortunately it does take some testing to really see why it is so awesome - but hey, I bet most people thought didn't get the big deal with vi the first time they used it either right? 7:26:55 PM  comment []      Maven Fun. I'm working on packaging up the first release of my Nebia project. I use a combination of IDEA and Ant... [Talk.org] At least I know I'm not the only one now When is Maven 1.0 due out? (Out of interest) 7:17:16 PM  comment []