Octavian Tanase's Weblog: In the pursuit of development 2.0

If you've read my previous post on charting for web applications using jMaki, here is another installment on the Ajax capabilities of NetBeans. The 6.1 beta release (due to be released tomorrow 3/6/08) improves on the previous feature set and as far as JavaScript support is concerned, it kicks butt!

So what's on tap?

 

• JavaScript support in the editor - if you make heavy use of JavaScript in your web apps, NetBeans 6.1 brings the language to life
  
• Better support for MySQL - ability to register MySQL servers
  
• Performance improvements - especially in startup and project open visual JavaServer Facess application development
• Support for PHP is still experimental (available on the update center), so I suggest for folks to wait until early April to kick the tires of the PHP support
  

Check out this wiki page for some more details on the Ajax related functionality as well the new & noteworthy wiki on NetBeans 6.1 beta.