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    Altova XMLSpy

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe XMLSpy JSON and XML Editor from Altova is designed to give developers the tools they need to build the most sophisticated applications with its graphical schema designer, code generation, file converters, debuggers, and profilers for working with XSD, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, and SOAP.N/A

    NetBeans

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ANetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Altova XMLSpyNetBeans
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.0
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    8.5
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    User Testimonials
    Altova XMLSpyNetBeans
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Altova
    Altova XMLSpy is an excellent tool for creating/designing new XML schemas (XSDs) using a visual layout tool and helps developers and architects work with XML and JSON documents, understand and validate and diagnose issues with XML and JSON documents. It is not well suited for working with other data formats, such as YAML or CSV.
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    Open Source
    NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in Eclipse. It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools.
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    Pros
    Altova
    • XML schema (XSD) design and maintenance
    • XML document validation
    • XML and JSON document reformatting and pretty-printing
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    Open Source
    • Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem.
    • Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools.
    • Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish.
    • Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools.
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    Cons
    Altova
    • Application performance could be improved, especially initial load speed
    • Better support for large document handling (documents hundreds or thousands of megabytes in size)
    • Remove all nagging popups to upgrade
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    Open Source
    • NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans.
    • File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files.
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    Usability
    Altova
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    Open Source
    Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code.
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    Open Source
    NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Altova
    XMLSpy does not have many capable competitors, it is the market leader and other alternatives do not provide the tools we rely on.
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    Open Source
    It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE with google chrome browser
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    Return on Investment
    Altova
    • XMLSpy has made us much more efficient when designing new integrations
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    Open Source
    • By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work.
    • Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this.
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