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Webinar of Upcoming Release of Netbeans Visual Web Pack

Tuesday Dec 05, 2006

I just saw a good webinar on NetBeans Visual Web Pack. You may need to look at the main news page for a link. Currently, there is a Technology Preview (TP) version that you can download, but a product quality version -- we call it FCS for First Customer Ship -- with some improvements will be out soon. In particular, there are significant improvements in the user interface (UI) for third-party component libraries that should make them easier to use. Craig demoed some of it in the webinar. There has been a change from TP and previous versions of Creator in the UI for component libraries. First, you must import a "complib" file to make a component library known to the IDE. Then, you must separately add them to a project to make it available to a project and appear on the palette. Feel free to let me know what you think.

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Posted at 07:09PM Dec 05, 2006 by edwingo in Tools
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Any chance you can tell us a slightly more specific date for FCS? Does soon mean this month? At one time I thought I saw it was supposed to ship with NetBeans 6.0, which is still a while away AFAIK. Thanks.

Posted by Tommy on December 05, 2006 at 07:58 PM PST #

VWP FCS is based on NetBeans 5.5 so it will definitely be before NetBeans 6. Other people make the decision on when to release it based on its level of quality. I do know that it's undergoing final testing. You can try the TP version now if you can't wait.

Posted by Edwin Goei on December 05, 2006 at 11:39 PM PST #

Correction. I just learned that NetBeans 5.5 Visual Web Pack FCS is available now at http://www.netbeans.org/products/visualweb/.

Posted by Edwin Goei on December 06, 2006 at 02:47 PM PST #