Thursday February 02, 2006 Seapegasus Blog
Thursday February 02, 2006 Great. Yesterday I almost wrote a script to check for the imminent 5.0 release — something like this, but automated, ...
[rik:~]> curl www.netbeans.org/index.html | grep "It's Here"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 19832 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
<a href="http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/index.html" title="It's Here!">
<img src="/images/articles/5.0-button.png" alt="It's Here!" style="float:left; margin-top:6px;
margin-right:10px; margin-bottom:6px; position:relative;" border="0"></a>
<h2 style="display:inline; border-bottom:none; margin-bottom:0px;">It's Here!</h2>
100 19832 100 19832 0 0 21629 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 667k
[rik:~]>
— and then, they of course go and publish it silently just after I leave the office. Tsk. Not fair. :-P
But still I have some real news: Gregg wrote a great blog entry with answers to the question which Sun Java IDE to use in which situation. Since the Sun tools are all free now and money is no loner part of the decision, we get asked this question a lot. Apart from the Open Source project NetBeans, there are Java Studio Enterprise (Java IDE for engineering businesses), Java Studio Creator (IDE for Java & web app developers), and Sun Studio (for C/C++). Each of them is targeting a different audience, and all of them are based on NetBeans (4.1).
Now that NB5.0 is out (and we're all kind of proud of all the stuff it can do), the following versions of the Studios will be based on 5.0, so they all can benefit from the new features in NetBeans, and NetBeans can benefit from their new features. So, depending on what you're working on (UML diagrams? Online shop? etc) you get the complete package by downloading one of the 4 products, and are ready to start working. If you should need one additional function (C++, UML, Java Mobility, etc), you install a pack or module. You don't download an 'empty' IDE and we don't force you to hunt down twelvety-seven individual plug-ins to get started; however, we do give you the freedom to install plug-ins, if you like! :-) NB's got many users who switched to NetBeans from other IDEs, we don't want them to suffer from plug-in withdrawal symptoms. That's how nice we all are. But then decide to go live in the middle of the night without me... Tsk...
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