Re:Random netbeans story (Score 1)

I am currently developing/maintating a POS system for my University. I have found that when I am working with a full-fledged application with more than 70K lines of code and using many third party libraries, anything short of an IDE is pure hell. Our entire project is managed using NetBeans. I do however, find that when I am doing projects for the CS classes(which runs at a few hundred lines of code and usually does not use other libraries), NetBeans a little bulky and slow. I guess what I am trying to say is, using NetBeans for a HelloWorld program wont do you much good, but when you are 12 foot deep inside the code that someone else wrote, and your are trying to figure out why the hell pressing a button causes the application to throw up a NummPointerException, an IDE is practically a necessity.