[ksec]

>Eclipse was/is de facto the standard IDE for Java and JavaEE development

Was it really de facto? Didn't it lost to Netbeans? I remember there was some rivalry between Netbeans and Eclipse ( along with many other things ) and in the end many sided with Sun ( Netbeans ).

But that was a really long time ago so my memory may be a little fuzzy.

[HelloNurse]

Netbeans mostly evaporated along with Sun. In my experience, the only advantage of Netbeans over Eclipse in its heyday was in development of AWT/Swing GUI apps (for which IntelliJ and JBuilder were better options anyway).