I have been tasked with updating my teams dev. environment. This environment will be used to develop and test J2ME and Android mobile applications. I am looking at NetBeans 6.8 and Eclipse 3.6. Do you have any recommendations for why either of these would be good or bad for this? (aka mobile plugin problems, compatibility issues, ease of setup/maintenance for team members, high quality mobile dev. support, etc.)
I am just trying to get some additional opinions from those who have made this decision before me.
For others who may come up against the same situation.
Since there was no feedback on the J2ME side of things I thought I would add a little about what I’ve found. The Eclipse support for developing J2ME is limited. The Pulsar release of Eclipse has limited support and the MJT project has recently lost sponsorship and is not reliable for professional development. Also on that note, if you are interested in contributing to an open source project having to do with J2ME dev environments MJT is actively looking for contributors. The product overall is good but it still has many bugs and missing features that are too much to deal with in a team that doesn’t have time to spend extensive resources keeping the development environment working.
Basically for these reasons and the simplicity of integration that Netbeans comes built into it for J2ME development, I am going with Netbeans for the J2ME side of things.
As others have already mentioned, for Android Eclipse is the obvious choice.
If anyone has anything to add about there experience with this please do.