[biojae]

As much as I like C++, Netbeans was an easier IDE to use.
Some of the things that made it easier were:
- Integrated Netconsole, Serial comms without a long cord, (connecting to the remote server never worked for us)
- Automatic reboot on download, when not using the debug mode, this saved lots of time
- Automatic file uploader, uploads the correct program file without going to a configuration page even when changing projects

Though, it seemed that there was a memory leak somewhere which would limit us in how many times we could upload / minutes open before we would have to restart netbeans.

And library support was a little lacking this year.
Only the vision libraries that were needed to get the vision tracking were ported.
To access any other parts of the NIvision libraries, JNA (Java Native Access) was required, (Writing a method in C++, compiling it in windriver, and then uploading it)

CAN support for the closed loop modes (current, position, speed) for java was the last language implemented, with a gap between Labview and C++.

But, even without all of the libraries, Java was perfectly capable language for programming the cRIO, and FRC robots.