also reviewing the application in april 2002, daniel steinberg writing for o'reilly media said "the strength of jedit for java developers comes from the plug-ins contributed by the community...for the most part, there's nothing here that couldn't be done with bbedit or even with emacs or vi. jedit packages the capabilities much more nicely and makes it easy to call often-used functionality using the plug-ins. where i saw netbeans as overkill, others may see jedit as underkill for an ide or overkill for a text editor. i find it mac friendly and easy to use. i don't expect too much from it, so i tend to be pleased with what i get."