Something From Eclipse That Isn't A Stinking Pile Of Horse Shit

Your first thought when reading the title must be "that can't be true!" and I would normally agree with you.
Everything that comes from IBM is a pain in the arse to work with and eclipse is no exception.
However, there is a small beam of light in the pit of hell that is working with eclipse.
Google has bought WindowBuilder Pro and made it available for free.
http://mashable.com/2010/12/19/google-java-eclipse/
Apparently this is worth $5M - not surprising it costs so much to make anything half decent out of eclipse!

I know that this is old news but people still don't seem to be aware of it.
This probably isn't surprising though as eclipse users are so afraid of change they wont even add a new plugin in case it craps over their installation and they have to start again from scratch (and people say the plugins are eclipse's best feature! - shows you how shit everything else is!)

Anyway, time to switch on the positive hat;
Although it doesn't look as nice as the Netbeans editor (it feels all squashed in) it has 2 redeeming qualities that have allowed me to add eclipse on to my system.

1. It can read Netbeans forms so you are no longer tied to Netbeans if you started your work there
2. It can read hand written code!

The latter is especially useful when picking up old code from someone else that you need to tidy up.

As much as it pains me to say it, this is something from eclipse that isn't a stinking pile of horse shit
Give it a go
http://code.google.com/javadevtools/download-wbpro.html

EDIT: It is now included in the default installation of eclipse

But afterwards, don't forget to go back to IDEA ;)
There is a free version available now too.
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/