As a JDK developer and a big fan of findbugs, I find it tremendously
useful to work with findbugs in an IDE. For better or worse, NetBeans
6 and Mercurial will soon be the standard IDE operating environment
very soon for many projects here at Sun. It is so helpful to be able
to run findbugs via an IDE (and edit the changes in the IDE), that I
find myself willing to skip using findbugs regularly if I can't run it
from an IDE. It is that much more useful when run from an IDE.
The NetBeans 6 plugin creation may be a big pain for someone to
create, but I can't stress how important it is to have it. I have to
assume that the Eclipse users out there feel the same way about using
findbugs via an IDE.
-kto
As an Eclipse user, indeed I find the Findbugs Eclipse plugin very
useful (even if a bit rough around the edges sometimes).