One key factor is that NB RCP is based on Swing, Eclipse RCP isn't. By
using Swing you have plenty of third-party libraries (such as SwingX,
for example); with Swing you can have complete control of the
look&feel (while all the Eclipse RCP apps "look the same") and you can
use animation effects and other cool things (which I believe aren't
supported by Eclipse since SWT has a poor control of the alpha-
channel, but I haven't checked whether this assertion stands still
true).
On Mar 12, 2008, at 20:05 , Sergio Lopes wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm in needing of some help to choose between Netbeans platform and
> Eclipse RCP. I'll be creating an application based on one of these
> platforms, though I'm inclined to choose netbeans over eclipse I need
> to document and justify my choice with technical arguments that I just
> don't have nor can find.
> The application is for the final year's project that I, as a computer
> science student, have to make.
>
> My main problem is that I can't find any comparison articles or
> discussion about both platforms that will help me justify my choice,
> every time I search for something on google, it just returns a bunch
> of flame wars on the use of one IDE over the other, the only article I
> found that I thought it could help me is not in English and I can't
> find a way to translate it.
>
> Any thoughts and insights about the use of both platforms will help as
> I don't have the time to lean to use both of them and then decide.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Sérgio Lopes
>
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