If you're willing to spend some money or deal with a 30-day trial
period, here are the reasons I use IntelliJ:
If you're developing an Open Source project they also offer a free
licence.
Also keep you're eye on Netbeans it is really advancing very quickly.
I use it just for Matisse, to put very nice GUIs together very
quickly. Netbeans now also works with James Gosling's Jackpot, a
refactoring tool on steroids, which he demonstrated at Java One this
year.
I much prefer Netbeans over Eclipse, as it uses the Swing libraries.
The Eclipse folk re-invented a whole User Interface library that does
not work as well in a cross platform manner. Their stated reason was
that they could not do what was needed with Swing, and clearly they
believed that it would never be possible (or else why spend so much
money on it). IntelliJ prooved them wrong over a couple of years ago.
Netbeans is prooving them to be dramatically wrong again. SWT is
therefore dead end technology. An interesting idea, but a failed one.
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