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There are many systems designed to aid in Java software design. Many are available free of charge and can even include the code used to create the development environment. This allows the addition of new features by any skilled programmer. Which is best to use depends on the work environment you have available and the features that appeal to you most.

If you develop in Windows or Linux, most tools will be available to you. More and more development platforms run on Mac OS X as time goes on. It is becoming better supported. Even Solaris can be a good platform for use with these tools now. Only a few IDEs like KDevelop (Linux) and JCreator (Windows) do not support a full range of operating systems.

The two most popular development environments for Java are NetBeans and Eclipse. Both platforms are free, open source and run on all of the operating systems developers most commonly use. There are reasons to choose one over the other, though.

If you, like most programmers, work in several other languages you may find the language is also supported by NetBeans or Eclipse. Besides Java, NetBeans also works well with Ruby, C, C++ and PHP. Eclipse supports all of these languages as well using plugins. In addition, it supports dozens of other languages ranging from UML to SQL. If support for a wide number of languages within a common IDE is important to you, Eclipse is the clear winner.

There are several features which some programmers find particularly useful in NetBeans. NetBeans takes less time to get up and running when initially opened. It is also described as being more responsive. The best features are immediately available without requiring installation of a multitude of plugins, unlike Eclipse. The code completion functions are real time savers and the contextual language documentation is usually found to be more helpful than other IDEs as well.

Both major contenders are available on all major platforms, are continuing to be improved, and are open source. NetBeans stands out because of better responsiveness, superior code completion and better documentation. The only real advantage Eclipse has over NetBeans is the variety of programming languages it can support.

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