I am working on designing and building a desktop application. I am thinking about using eclipse or netbeans for the base of this application. However, I have never built on either of these platforms. I am personally leaning to using netbeans because it seams like that platform is an easer learning curve. But, I wanted to ask people that have actually build on these platforms before which one is easier to use?

My personal definition of easer is as follows:

  • Easy to get started with

  • Consistent and logical API

  • Good documentation

  • Easy to build and deploy

Thanks very much,

Josh

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