My experience with Eclipse via HI-Tech's "HI-TIDE IDE" is really bad. (So I won't feel surprise if the NetBean performances the same.) I am not sure it is because of Eclipse itself or HI-TECH's modification. Everything in Eclipse based "HI-TIDE IDE" is too slow to be used. The speed makes it not usable for business purpose. Overall, Eclipse and a few open-source based automotive OBD software response very slow on all my tests. I don't want to say all Open-source projects are bad, but most of my experience found they normally lack the speed performance a commercial edition should have. Linux OS may be an exemption. It works fine on most of my tests with a reasonable speed as Windows do. However I also found that Linux can be affected by virus as easy as a Windows. And I still didn't find good anti-virus or firewall software for Linux which can match the performance of "Symantec Endpoint" I am using for Windows system. Funny N. Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com http://www.AuElectronics.com/products http://augroups.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: John Chung To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Sun, February 21, 2010 9:38:09 PM Subject: Re: [PIC] ICD3 vs PICKit 3, PIC18 Explorer demo board It is not the Java (writes everything) but the reliability!!!!! NetBean sinks.... John --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Philip Pemberton wrote: > From: Philip Pemberton > Subject: Re: [PIC] ICD3 vs PICKit 3, PIC18 Explorer demo board > To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." > Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 1:58 AM > Alan B. Pearce wrote: > > A UK Microchip rep told me "it is being rewritten in > Netbeans" ... > > *PHTTBRT* > > Dammit, need to clean that coffee off my monitor now... > > Rewritten with Netbeans, i.e. in Java?! Lovely. So I guess > that means > you're going to need an overclocked dual-chip 6-core > Opteron box or > similar to run it in any usable fashion... And don't get me > started on > the NullPointerExceptions... > > Three steps forward, five steps back. > > -- > Phil. > piclist@philpem.me.uk > http://www.philpem.me.uk/ > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist