The M256 hard-copy materials arrived today, including yet another Netbeans guide, and a Netbeans CD. I'm not a fan of Netbeans, and I actually avoided using it altogether on M255 and used Eclipse instead, but on M362 I didn't have time to mess around with Eclipse and Glassfish, so I reluctantly used Netbeans where I had to.
One of the reasons was that cutting/pasting code from the editor into a word document (or in my case LibreOffice) for the assignments worked way better with Eclipse than Netbeans.
I've a hunch I will be able to get away with using Eclipse for most of M256, except I believe there are parts which use the Netbeans GUI builder, in which case I will have to relent.
