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Having used >NetBeans> for a long long time, I thought I would share my views about some of the helpful aspects this IDE offers, some not so helpful, and finally finish off this post with the most annoying feature of NetBeans I have encountered. I started using NetBeans from version 4 on my windows machine for writing J2EE applications, the IDE took almost several minutes to startup which really annoyed me like it did for many others. I constantly switched back to >Eclipse> after trying each and every milestone and new release. From the last 4 weeks, I have been using NetBeans exclusively for writing a complex Java EE and a relatively simple Groovy and Grails applications. So, here are some of the highlights about >The Good, the Bad and the Ugly> in my opinion: