Installed
JDK6
(Mustang) beta and
Eclipse3.2
. As
Sun promised
, Swing library, especially the WindowsLookAndFeel feels much better. It’s hard to tell the difference between a Swing drawn window and a WINXP native window. Developing Java desktop applications is worth considering. Mattise, a free easy-to-use WYSIWYG Swing UI designer, is the only reason for many to use the tedious NetBeans. Recently,
Genuitec
provided Matisse4Eclipse, which is an implementation of Matisse that integrates its functionality into MyEclipse Workbench to enable the easy creation of Swing applications with Eclipse. So the only reason to use NetBeans has gone.