Some days ago i started my first Java project including a GUI,
first i began with using eclipse and the beginning was fine, until i came to that point were i had to create the GUI Interface.
I didn´t had the intension to define my GUI in writing lines of code, i was mostly searching for something to design a GUI by moving arround some buttons and editor boxes like in Visual Studio or Delphi.
After a few tryouts with outdated tutorials i could finally install the Visial Editor for Eclipse by using
this tutorial, i noticed that comfortable solution i am searching for, searching arround how to work with it i just found out, the VE is propably not able to do what i tried.
So i decided to try out Netbeans, and i were completly satisfied, download and installation were quite easy and the GUI Designer does it´s work almost perfectly, you don´t have to waste your time in configurating layouts just move them arround with drag and drop, almost as good as in Delphi.
So what i decided was stop to use Eclipse for that Java stuff and start to use Netbeans and so far Netbeans hits all of my needs exactly, even seems to be more out of one piece than eclipse.
Maybe gonna try it out Netbeans for PHP aswell.