Hi,

I'm just moving to a development machine (win XP) so I'm reinstalling all my
software, and I'm wondering whether to try out Eclipse rather than NetBeans
for my java IDE.

My java work is almost entirely server based (mostly servlets) and I really
like fact that with NB you can just press the debug button and have it start
up inside it's built-in tomcat. The main downsides are that I don't find it
as slick or fast in use as any of the microsoft visual studio IDEs, In
particular it seems very slow when single-stepping compared to something
like VB6.

I don't have any interest in running on any playform other than windows, or
on developing GUI apps.

I'd appreciate any comments from people who have used both these IDEs. I see
the IDE as purely a tool so I don't want to try learning a new one for the
sake of it, unless there is a good chance it will be more suitable than the
one I'm running already.

Many thanks

Andy