IDE Extortion
October 19, 2007Why, in the name of all that is binary, is Sun pushing NetBeans down our throats via its tutorials? The new Swing Tutorial teaches how to use NetBeans more than how to code a Swing app. The JavaFX Tutorial is the same. This kind of IDE extortion does little good for the Java community.
Thank the patron saint of programmers for Groovy’s SwingBuilder.
Update – another example: Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language (for Swing Programmers):
There are two options to choose from when creating your first JavaFX Script application:
- using the NetBeans™ IDE 6.0 or NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 releases (more info below )
- using CLI with your favorite source editor (more info on JavaFX Wiki)
Maybe it is because the section you are reading is called “Learning Swing with the NetBeans IDE”. The rest of the sections don’t talk about NetBeans:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
addition to the commenter,
maybe because Netbeans is the easiest way to create form based GUI’s in Java? Especially if you are from VB-Delphi world, or need to convert hundreds of forms, Swingbuilder will not make your life that easy..
Wow. Maybe you should pay a little more attention to what you click on eh? Extortion? Over-zealousness on your part more like it.