> Does anyone could give-me some explanation about the diferences between
Eclipse e NetBeans.
I'll give it a go, but I haven't used either of them for some time.
> Are they the most important IDE's to java development?
No, but I bet they like to think they are.
> Which the main features?
I Think Netbeans is it is a fully featured IDE, meaning it has every
major feature from every other IDE. It doesn't have the best
implementation of them all though.
Eclipse ... Well I don't like eclipse but lots of people do. As far as I
can tell standalone it is more like a editor than a IDE, but you can
plug stuff into it and get a very IDE like experiance.
I could be wrong, and just got a retarded point of view from it.
> Are they used to build desktop and web applications?
Sure, why not. After all you build the applications with Java, not a IDE.
> Are there versions to Win32 and Linux?
Yes.
> Are they open source projects?
I think so, or if Netbeans isn't it is in that near Open sourced level
that Sun so loves.