I decided to try something new yesterday so I downloaded NetBeans 4.1 (I’m an eclipse-user) and Hibernate 3 with it’s annotations.

So far, I like it. NetBeans is kind of the most difficult part since it’s a totally new environment. The hibernate annotations I like best - less xml, no more xdoclet (for hibernate stuff) and Spring takes care of all the wiring. I don’t think I should mention that Spring rocks, now do I? ;)

As I already said, so far I’m having fun!