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Figure 1-4. NetBeans: Running the application
Perhaps the most popular cross-platform, open source IDE for Java is Eclipse, originally
from IBM and now shepherded by the
Eclipse Foundation
, now the home of many software
projects. Just as NetBeans is the basis of Sun Studio, so Eclipse is the basis of IBM's Ration-
al Application Developer (RAD). All IDEs do basically the same thing for you when getting
started; see, for example, the Eclipse New Java Class Wizard shown in
Figure 1-5
. It also
features a number of refactoring capabilities, shown in
Figure 1-6
.
