IDE

Well a lot of Java IDEs are written in Java ;-)

Do you run it with enough memory settings ?

If you have limited resources on your machine, i'd suggest an IDE that isn't

Netbeans is possibly the slowest of the most common IDE's. Options are: check memory settings, upgrade RAM, stop other non-essential processes or use Eclipse ;-)

and make sure you have the lastet version...

... but i remember hearing favourable reports about Gel (see link)

I switched over from Netbeans to Eclipse: that's 2 times as fast, but ....

All these IDE's require > 500MHz, at least 512 Mb and run on the hard disk,
not over a network.
Besides that, rumor has it that Netbeans is going to be abandoned by SUN ....

;JOOP!

Besides: Eclipse is clean: you don't install it, you put it somewhere and run it.
All the configuration and status is in and under the directory that you indicate.
To remove it just delete eclipse and the status directory.
No contamination of all your disks and registries.
(both on LINUX and MSWindows).

;JOOP!

Well, most of the IDEs need a lot of RAM, so the solution is to upgrade it :) how much do you alreayd have?

Here's a Java IDE that was developed using C++ - http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/visual_java.asp

>> rumor has it that Netbeans is going to be abandoned by SUN ....

J-Oops ;-) why so? You have any links which say so? I was about to download the latest version....

Read the newspapers.

;JOOP!

:-)