This week, several developers reported various bugs. In most cases, they found a workaround. If you have better insights into these, please feel free to provide help.

1. NetBeans 6.1 bug? -- Muzi on BinaryTales.com, 6/3
Vusa Dube wrote that ever since he upgraded to NetBeans 6.1 and GlassFish 9.1, he had problems deploying one of his projects. Vusa noted that the issue he faced is a problem that others have come across, and removing a particular servlet entry appeared to solve the problem allowing the deployment to work.

2. My NetBeans 6.1 Personal Issues -- Planexstrategy Knowledge Base Sharing, 6/1
After working extensively with NetBeans 6.1, Hildeberto Mendonça created a list of personal annoyances he found in the IDE. Hildeberto said that when he added .jar files, which are independent of libraries managed by NetBeans, the IDE tried to share the file, which caused problems for other team members.

3. NetBeans's SVN Problem (Certificate not trusted) -- Find Your Solution Here !, 5/30
The blogger encountered a problem while trying to update a project from a newly installed copy of NetBeans. After connecting with GoogleCode, NetBeans alerted the blogger that GoogleCode's certificate was not trusted and disconnected. The blogger tried to find a solution, and when using the SVN command line to check out the repository, the problem was solved.

4. NetBeans Maven support 3.1.2 has a problem with long version numbers -- Messages from mrhaki, 5/29
Hubert Ikkink wrote that after he updated the NetBeans Maven support with version 3.1.2, some old projects could not be read correctly by NetBeans. Hubert commented that the cause was a Number Format Exception for an input string saying that the exception appeared to come from the embedded Maven. When he excluded the dependency from the pom.xml, NetBeans worked with his projects again.

5. MAC OSX with NetBeans 6.0 and Java 1.6 -- Java Blog, 5/28
Jonathan Baney wrote that when he installed the new 1.6 jdk, NetBeans ran fine but would not allow him to create anything. To fix the problem, Jonathan provided an alternate workaround to the bug.

6. NetBeans 6.1 EA for PHP -- All In A Day's Work, 5/28
Jubz previously complained about missing support for a PHP plug-in for NetBeans 6.1, but said that a reader alerted him to the early availability release. Jubz pointed out that although NetBeans did not come with application/web servers, installing WAMP will provide the database, web services and PHP engine needed. He highlighted that he liked that NetBeans maintained the simplicity of developing PHP, calling it "lightweight and poised to become a great development environment for all PHP scripting."

7. NetBeans observations/complaints -- Regen MY Toolkit, 5/28
Benjamin Lee listed his thoughts on NetBeans in comparison with Eclipse, Intellij and Visual Studio .Net 2005. He highlighted the NetBeans community's accomplishments, how the overall user experience is cleaner than Eclipse and Intellij and how NetBeans comes with Ruby support built in. Benjamin concluded: "Overall its a very nice IDE with growing support for different languages. It's free, which is nicer than IntelliJ's not free, and cleaner than Eclipse, which is less and less an IDE and more a platform (for better or worse)."