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These are reasons to use Netbeans, not 6.1beta.

LudoA,
You are correct! These are reasons to use NetBeans. I am experimenting with the latest released 6.1 Beta so added that version with the post.

i think the bloging contest is the reason why there is the 6.1 beta in the entry name ;)

I will say blogging contest is the reason I started exploring NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta, as I wanted to write blogs with new findings and my original experiences. NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta is the version I started using at the first place.

Not that top 10 lists are overdone or anything *snicker*, but hasn't a Netbeans top 10 been done every other day since it was released?

I feel making a list of all the reasons for liking a tool and then sorting out top 10 out of them an interesting exercise. It explains me why I am being passionate about NetBeans.

Ok. Fair enough.

Do you work for Sun?? Seemed like advertising or pointless flattery toward netbeans for the blog competition..

I do not work for Sun Microsystems. You can check my employment details in my linkedin profile (available through my blog http://myinfospectrum.blogspot.com). What I said in my post is not flattery. The blog competition requires just one post for the participation and my blog has many practical posts. If you go through my blog you will see it as an account of a user using NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta, finding pros and cons of the software and publishing it for others to read and relate with their own experience.

If this had been flattery then these points are very basic, I could have come up with many more points much more interesting and tempting than what I said. I have written what I feel now when using NetBeans IDE. My company is an Eclipse shop but still we are thinking NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta for our GUI designing needs.

If personal experience blogged is termed as advertising, then I feel NetBeans deserve that much advertising, because a tool which I felt is good at some features shall be told to all my friends so they can also try. Regarding flattery I already stated my point of view above.

with regards
Tushar Joshi, Nagpur
http://www.tusharvjoshi.com

Whether my blog gets selected for the Blog Competition has not remained the only goal of this blog. Now this blog has become a journal for any new NetBeans user in his journey. Even if this blog is not selected it has already added value to the internet with day to day practical points I am facing with NetBeans IDE. This blog has become something like a friend instructing the steps sitting beside you. Please read some other posts on my blog if possible to understand my point.

Thank You.
Tushar Joshi, Nagpur

Have you ever used Visual Web Pack? I know I'm talking about 5.5, not 6.1, but after using VWP on 5.5 I don't ever want to use NetBeans again. It's slow, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w, eats up all my memory (2GB RAM is not enough for it), and suffers from Microsoft sindrome (I had to shut it down and restart it many times a day). Even autocomplete stops working from time to time! Really, really bad... I really don't believe they've improved it so much.
And after all, I could take your post and switch "NetBeans" with the name of any major Java IDE today.