Even though we have just released version 5.0 of NetBeans and Mobility Pack, the previous version (4.1) is not dead yet. Although not quite a flash news, NetBeans 4.1 (together with Mobility Pack) was selected as a finalist in the Mobile Development Tool category of Software Developer magazine's 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards. Hooray, another reason to celebrate :-).

Finally - the FCS version of Mobility Pack 5.0 has been just released! Currently perhaps the most powerful IDE for developing JavaME/MIDP applications. Just look at the features available in this version:

New Features:

• Improved preprocessor support for device fragmentation


• Improved Mobile Client to Web Application Connection Generator


• Support for Java ME Web Services (JSR 172)


• New custom components in the Visual Mobile Designer


• and many other things, see Mobility Pack Features page for details

So if you haven't done so, download the IDE and start coding. I'm sure you're going to have a lot of fun when woking with the tool.