NetBeans is faster at starting up and more stable than Eclipse. It uses Swing for its GUI rather than SWT, and has a custom plugin development format based on OSGI. The document discusses why the author chose NetBeans over Eclipse and IntelliJ for Java Swing development - its stability, customizability through plugins which he has developed, and open source nature. It also mentions his research into toolchain and assembler development using the NetBeans platform.

1. NetBeans dev and ecosystem
PETER CHEUNG
SYSTEM ARCHITECT
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2. Why NetBeans
Netbeans Eclipse
Speed Faster when starting up maven Slower
Stability Stable Always hang
GUI Swing SWT
Plugin dev Custom format / OSGI OSGI
Method to dev Hack the source Keep asking

3. Why I Use Netbeans
(my point of view)
• My code was on Swing, not SWT
• So Netbeans or IntelliJ
• IntelliJ not 100% open source so I
don’t like it
• Finaly choice -> Netbeans

4. My history on Netbeans
• I am doing
toolchain
research
• I can’t dev the
own IDE myself
• So I extend
Netbeans

5. Research in Assembler

6. Share my experience
• How to start netbeans plugins
development
• How to debug plugin
• How to publish plugin