In an earlier blog post, I was mentioning how I was trying out the NetBeans IDE, partly because I believed it had some features that Eclipse didn't offer (or at least didn't offer as easily). While that was more or less true for the versions tried out, it doesn't seem to be the case for the latest versions.
The version of Eclipse I was running is the one that Ubuntu seems to install by default. I forgot what version it is, but it is pretty old. The version is prior to the new naming conventions of the Eclipse IDEs (Europa, Ganymede, etc.). Of course, this was the case for the NetBeans IDE I installed too, but it wasn't as big of a deal (I had 6.1, and the latest was 6.5).
This past weekend, I decided to manually install the newest versions of Eclipse and NetBeans. After doing this, it became apparent that the newer/newest versions of Eclipse do indeed have support for SVN, UML, etc., via plugins or whatever, similar to NetBeans. This was my original assumption, which is why I was a little surprised that I didn't see those options in my original version of Eclipse. Of course, I'm not sure why Eclipse didn't try to tell me to upgrade to a newer version, but whatever...
So in conclusion...these IDEs are really similar. I'm sure each does some things better than the other, but I was actually somewhat surprised at how alike they are. After working with NetBeans for while (well, not that long), I can't really see too much reason to stick with it. Or, conversely, any reason why I should go back to Eclipse (other than familiarity). I think it more or less comes down to how much you like the interface for each one.
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