after one years of use, i found netbeans is very powerful and 
extremely flexible ide tool. it really remove lots of dirty work 
from programmer side. here I want to point out a specific feature 
that's VERY worthwhile to note. Comapred with other popular IDE, i 
find the refacotring support in netbeans is very weak. though 
already you have refactoringit module,but 
it is limited and have its own restricition of use. considering the 
critical part refactoring play in modern programming, esp XP, I 
think refactoring should be an integral part of IDE release, it 
event deserves a first level menu in ide main screen. to quote from 
Martin Fowler:automatic refacoring is the most important advances 
in programming since the IDE.

Best regards

James