Preface
A constant search for fresh technology made my young Java life very exciting.
In the early 2000’s, I started to write my first book Enterprise Java Frameworks, and bumped into NetBeans IDE. I liked the look and feel but hated the concepts behind it. Back then, NetBeans IDE was too complicated to use and I almost forgot about NetBeans altogether. . .
A few years later, NetBeans IDE 5 came out and was praised by Sun Microsystems engineers as “the only IDE you need” and was supposed to be especially powerful. Meanwhile, I had invested a lot in the Eclipse ecosystem. I was maintaining 35 client-specific workspaces with different and incompatible ...
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