Sun is asking developers to download the Netbeans 6 preview (milestone 9 for people following more closely), use it and blog about it. But I already did! And I will in the future. Although I’m an Oracle-adept, I can’t help but like the Netbeans IDE more than I like Oracle’s JDeveloper. Netbeans is missing some specific Oracle support, but it has tons of other stuff instead! What is there not to like about Ruby support? Or the full mobile development environment? The slick interface? Or the snappy code-completion? Heck, JDeveloper 11g (still in preview too) has changed the project-structure-pane layout so dramatically, even a newbie can’t help but dislike it.
So, if you have no special reason to use JDeveloper, by all means, use Netbeans (that rhymes). I know you won’t be disappointed.
There. Sun. I said it.