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If you title your post "IntelliJ vs. Eclipse vs. NetBeans", you think that there would be a little meat in there about using IntelliJ or Eclipse instead of NetBeans. Nope, there's just a "I haven't really used it" and a complaint about its name. Hmm. Thanks.

I agree with the article that IntelliJ is the best all around java ide but this article doesn't even use proper english. Also, he hasn't even used Netbeans and thinks IntelliJ is good due to the beer?

I don't want to be mean, but if you want to write articles in the Web, write them in your native language or learn English first, please...

This article suffers from the same problem that plagues most A vs. B vs. C articles. The writer has a clear favourite, hasn't spent enough time researching and evaluating the others, and writes a biased article. This isn't a value judgment against the author; if I wrote a similar article it would be biased in favour of Eclipse simply because I haven't spent enough time evaluating NetBeans or IDEA.

"From my experience I could give it 5 ... 5-... Why? Because of complexity to use it from the scratch, finding all necessary plugins and make them working stable."

This is an excellent example. He cites one of the challenges of the system, but doesn't mention either of the excellent solutions, probably because he's not aware of them. First off, there's MyEclipse, which gives you a choice between many different packages, each of which includes Eclipse plus several best-of-breed plugins, everything tested for compatibility.

Second, there's Callisto, which consists of Eclipse plus probably the ten most important plugins, like the Web Tools Platform. Too make things simpler, you can install some or all of these plugins from within Eclipse, which will manage the prerequisites for you.

I need to make a correction to my comment. I meant to refer to EasyEclipse rather than MyEclipse.