Continuing over my last post on NetBeans 5.0, I’ll be making rounds of similar articles about my experience with NB5. Here’s the first of the installment.

So far so good. NB5 has been very useful as a replacement for TOAD or the open-source SQuirreL (which I am fond using). Good thing for me, I have found a new tool that enables me to work on Oracle and DB2 at the same time. The SQL Editor and DB Explorer seems to be very sleek and is just having the right stuff for non-DBA, programmer-oriented development.

Next stop on my evaluation: appserver integration and Matisse.

I haven’t used the Editor, full-fledged as I am still keystroke and functionality-bound to Eclipse. So far, I still like Eclipse (at least for the Java Editor ) over NB5.