Eclipse vs. Netbeans

Since there is no good feature rich natively compiled IDE for java on linux, at least no free one, I have been using Eclipse. I have been overall happy until recently when it's performance seems to be degrading quicker than a copy of windows 95. First of all, it's plugin model sucks. The dependencies are not all worked out and the plugins often depend on one another. When this happens they are all in different packages. It makes no sense to offer a plugin that doesn't work, which is the case unless you install other plugins to make it work. It's automatic update feature slows the program down on startup by default and installing the updates is a risk because they aren't well qa'ed in my opinion. Netbeans plugin model is much better. However, it lacks some of the features I have come to like in Eclipse. I have found it to be more stable. I like the subversion and cvs plugins for Eclipse better. Netbeans gives me an ugly red error at the top of each of my .jsp pages for some reason, though if I ignore that the code checker is actually a little better and faster for .jsp in Netbeans than eclipse, whose WST plugin is part of the dependency nightmare for Eclipse's plugins. I like Eclipse's refactoring better than Netbeans. Also, they have saner templates than Netbeans for creating new modules. I toyed with Kdevelop, but it's really not there at all for java, vi would be better. I've been fighting this battle for the last couple of weeks and it's a little frustrating. We'll see what wins out. Currently I'm using Netbeans for basic editing with code completion and opening Eclipse to do special things and hoping it doesn't break while I do it.