Eclipse vs Netbeans
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The most used IDEs for Java development.
Both can be used as a foundation to build thick client applications (Eclipse RCP and NetBeans Platform).
NetBeans is sponsored by Oracle. Eclipse is sponsored by IBM.
NetBeans user interface is built on Swing (Java native lightweight toolkit). Eclipse user interface is built on SWT (a Java wrapper around the system's underlying toolkit), so it needs compiled binary libraries that are platform dependent.
