Eclipse vs. Netbeans for large projects

I've been getting a bit fed up with Netbeans this last year, to tell the truth. The main bugbear is all the "project scanning" that goes on when you make the least change to libraries etc.. It's also got some very nasty habits, like I'm typing a method name and the auto-completion suddenly substitutes a completely different method, presumably on the basis of what I was typing a second ago, and I'm still having debugger problems on my largest program.
And the metadata database all this project scanning produces is unreliable, about once a week I have to delete the whole thing and let it be built again. Several releases have gone past without these fundamentals being fixed, the developers have more fun adding facilities for the next language I'm never likely to use.
Anyway, enough ranting. The question in my mind is, should I finally give up and switch to eclipse, am I going to find it has it's own problems just as annoying? So this question is addressed to people who have used both on large projects. Is the grass really greener on the other side?
I'm irritated that there's no open source plug-in for mattise. I have several forms created under Netbeans. If we're going to MyEclipse does this mean I should consider the other commercial Java IDEs?

Malcolmmc,
Through my career I've had to support users in real life that have issues just as you describe, but with Product X, while I'm not saying this is what is ailing you--because I've not seen anything about what you are doing or running--here are some of my findings:
1 - (and this is the #1 cause that I've run across for this type of thing) How much stuff are you running in memory at startup? Those little icons down in the tray actually represent programs running in memory that each take up a finite and distinct part of your available memory, and some of them stream information or access the internet and other rerources frequently. I once answered a ticket from a person that had a huge box, for the time, he had 30--yes, that is right 30--programs loading on startup. His complaint was that the machine took a long time to start and then was sluggish. I unloaded everything and had him run his apps--amazingly, he was delighted with the speed and wanted to know what I had done. I then had to tell him the bad news: he couldn't monitor the stock exchange, weather, recieve up to the minute nascar happenings, and etc. He didn't like it, but it fixed his problem. I later went back to find he had 20 of them reloaded--20 seemed to him a happy compromise between instant information and speed.
2 - Virtual memory--none or too small. I've found a few people that run without a swap file... it runs great until memory gets full, then bad things happen.
3 - Other programs competing for resources. I see this all the time, one program is trying to do I/O and being blocked by another.
4 - Hardware issures. Often the hardware just wares out. For instance: a fan stops or slows down on a video card and the whole system slows down as the GPU overheats--not enough to shut everything off, but maybe just enough that your super fast system become a dog.
5 - Hardware conflicts--this is not nearly as frequent a problem as in the Standardization Era post '96, but it does still happen. Check your hardware manager and the drivers being used.
6 - Out of date driver issues... enough said there, we've all had them.
7 - HD fragmentation--this is not so common, but does happen still.
8 - Low Memory (this should be moved up to #2) People still persist in undervaluing the worth of extra memory. There isn't an amount of RAM supported on a computer that represents too much RAM. RAM is cheap, RAM is good, MAX RAM is even best. (btw--with 3 GB you shouldn't have problems running NetBeans.)
9 - Installation issues. Not everything installs properly and when it doesn't install properly it's not always a reported error.
10 - Configuration problems. Sometimes new features can be very annoying and can be turned off.
11 - Believe it or not, OS's are not perfect and they need to be tuned up from time to time. If you are running Windows, then clean out your temporary files area, not just your Internet Temporary Files Area, but the system temporary files area. If you've been running heavily, then I guarantee you have 1000's of temporary files that are choking your performance as Windows tries to keep track of them. Delete them.
12 - Part of your program or resource your program uses may have become corrupt. This happens more that we like to admit.
There are tons of other things, but these at the big 12 that I usually go looking for when I get a call saying computer problems are beating them up.

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I need to somehow bring the video into Motion, because I want to create "real" shadows against my
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When working with a long project, and with a full-resolution codec, what is my smartest workflow? I
am trying to spend the least time possible rendering back and forth, and also avoid generating huge
in-between files each step of the way. It seems that any way to approach it has plusses and minuses,
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vary bad,That wasn't quite my point. It is bad - think of network effects (people being able to help each other) and decreased "tool maintenance time" when all use the same IDE. It is something that needs to be introduced sooner or later, but it just sounded like you had too much trouble at hand as it alsready is. Changing the environment and switching IDEs at the same time might decrease productivity too much.
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Well, I'm about 98% sure it isn't a hardware problem. I had already pulled the RAM and tried some backup RAM I have sitting in the box (8 gigs of Corsair), went thru the harddrives weeks ago with Chkdsk and everything was a-ok there (a couple of bad clusters on the old C drive, but that has since been replaced and is on the shelf as a backup), motherboard seems to be fine, re-seated all cards and cables, etc.. Again I even slapped a new 500 watt PS in just in case (the old one was a 400 watt and with all the crap I have on this system, thought it might have been a voltage drop off issue...nadda). I did have a bit of a heat problem a while back...one of the case cooling fans was going bad and the CPU was getting just hot enough to trip the system (about 5 degrees over). That said, that also shows up in the BIOS monitor as well and was easy enough to track down. Either way, the bad cooling fan has been replaced and I even added a "squirrel cage" style fan as well...system is running nice and cool now.
BTW...I used to be A+ certified on both PC's and Macs when I was a hardware tech (not to mention HP, IBM and Lexmark certified, Cat 5 installer, etc), so I like to think I know my hardware fairly well. Not just a weekend warrior on that front...used to do it for a living.
I had also already tried manually resizing the paging file as well...tried different sizes, tried spreading it out across the drives, etc.. Didn't really make a difference either way and again the only time the virtual memory low comes up is if I try to open Photoshop or Maya while this big project is open in Premiere. That said, Photoshop and Maya both tend to be pigs when it comes to memory/RAM (Photoshop especially). Doesn't seem to happen with Illustrator or any other program....just PS and Maya if this project is open in Premiere.
One other oddity I have noticed recently is actually with Maya. Before all of this started...in other words, before that last MS critical update and 3 days of reinstalling software...I used to be able to do a background render with Maya and still be able to keep working on stuff. I'd fire off batch render and then I could move on to other things...editing images in Photoshop (CS 5 there if it matters), surfing the web and even doing some light stuff in Premiere. Since this problem has been occuring however, I have noticed that the Maya batch renders are REALLY slowing down the system big time. Difficult to even check my email while a batch is running. Likewise, I have noticed that since I upgraded the Maya from 2011 to 2013, Maya has a nasty tendency to freeze during a batch render. If I have a long batch render, I'll set it up to run over night...when I get up the next moring, the render itself will still be running (you can see Mayabatch.exe still going in processes under Task Manager) but Maya is totally frozen up. Now I did that update at the same time as the rest of this mess happened so I don't know if these problems are due to the Maya upgrade or the (apparent) Windows problem...I'm inclined to believe the latter.
BTW...after having a project file get corrupted yesterday during one of these shut downs, I've been double saving the files (so as to have a backup) and that too seems to have made things a bit better. Hasn't actually shut down on me when I've been doing this. That said, it's also a serious pain in the butt having to save that way too.
With that, looking thru the rest of Hunt's article there, I did kill indexing services...at least on the work drives. it's about the only thing there that I haven't tried, so we'll see what happens this afternoon. I seriously doubt that would be the problem though as usually that would give an error or a lockup and not an instant shut down, but we'll see.

Multiple TOCs for One Project

Is it possible to split the topics in one help project into
two toc (hhc) files? I have a master project that merges about 53
chm files. Some of the slave projects are rather large and over the
years have had several types of information added to them. The
information in the projects are related to each other, but they
need to be organized separately in the master TOC. Splitting the
projects themselves is not a good solution. I would like to have
multiple hhc files for the projects so that the topics can easily
be inserted in their logical place in the master TOC.

Hi,
I am TW working jointly with another TW on a huge multifirm
project for a same client. He is well versed in RH, while I am a
beginner (with using RH) not with TW. He and I each produce large
parts of what will be merged into a single huge context sensitive
.chm file. Having experimented a bit with possibilities such as the
ones you are exploring, I thought we could use it for our project.
But the other TW felt we would have problems down the road.
Just to confirm what John says. But then, I also am not
adding anything positive by way of solution. Hope somebody else
reacts to these two successive negative answers, and comes up with
help for you.
Daniel Garneau, CTM, CL
Technical Writer, Canada

Do we need to put the following code in the web-xml for the project to run

Hi^^^,
actually I have created a project in Eclipse WTP and I am running it from remote server. Its giving me 404 error when I tried to run it.
I know 404 error is generally due to some error in deployment descriptor.
I am going through this tutorial for creating project in eclipse WTP
this says that I need to include the following code in web-xml. Please look at the quotes below
"Web modules in J2EE has a deployment descriptor where you configure the web application and its components. This deployment descriptors is called the web.xml. According to the J2EE specification, it must be located in the WEB-INF folder. web.xml must have definitions for the Servlet and the Servlet URI mapping. Enter the following lines into web.xml:"
"Listing 2. Deployment Descriptor web.xml"
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Snoop Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.eclipse.wtp.tutorial.SnoopServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Snoop Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/snoop/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
My question is, it is necessary to include the above lines between <servlet> and </servlet-mapping> in web-xml
thanks and regards,
Prashant

pksingh79 wrote:
actually I have created a project in Eclipse WTP and I am running it from remote server. Its giving me 404 error when I tried to run it.
I know 404 error is generally due to some error in deployment descriptor. what's the url you've put.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Snoop Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.eclipse.wtp.tutorial.SnoopServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet> Every Servlet has to have a <servlet></Servlet> tag in the web.xml
the <servlet-name>is for the naming the servlet and the <servlet-calss>is for class file of the servlet in your case the .class file is to be in the package of tutorial,if it's not then how the container will no where the calss file is
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Snoop Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/snoop/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>You type something in your url likk http://localhost:8080/webappname (Tomcat server),so for url mapping instead of typing the entire class file name ,you just enough have to type what you've put in the <url-mapping> tag and it has to be inside of <servlet-mapping>
I think the problem is in <url-pattern> change it like /snoop<url-pattern>
My question is, it is necessary to include the above lines between <servlet> and ></servlet->mapping> in web.xmlSo now you think whether you need something inside <servlet>and </servlet-mapping>

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