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NetBeans 6.8 beta is now available (Download, NB 6.8 Home Page). NB 6.8 has a number of key features, from support for GlassFish v3 to JavaFX to PHP frameworks like symfony. The NB6.8 website links to other documentation that is being updated as we get closer to fcs, including Tutorials and Screencasts. NetBeans screencasts can also be found in the NB Channel at Channel Sun (for example, see the Symfony Support recording; and that of kick butt). |
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Ludo seems to win the race to be the First to Announce it, but NB6.8 M1 is now available for download. This is the first build that provides JavaEE 6 support, including a bundled GlassFish v3 (b57). See New And Noteworthy and Ludo's Post for details. Download the different bundles from the NB6.8 M1 page. |
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Adam Bien -
"Netbeans 6.8m1 - The (lightweight) Java EE 6 IDE"
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James Branajam -
More About NB 6.8 M1
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NetBeans 6.7.1 is now available. The main new feature is that the JavaFX 1.2 Plugin is now included and bundled. See the Release Notes and the announcements from Octavian, Charles and Tor. Download it from the Usual Location. |
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The NetBeans Community Acceptance Team (NetCAT) was created to facilitate wide community participation in validating the quality of the NetBeans distributions. The same principles are now being applied to two new areas: Bug Fixing and New Development |
The new programs are NetFIX (mailing list) and NetDEV (mailing list). In both cases the principle is to encourage participation through a support group and some direct help from more experienced developers.
NetCAT has been very successful and we applied it to GlassFish via FishCAT (Wiki, entries@TA) In the past we had explored ideas like "adopt-a-bug" and "starter bugs" for GlassFish; perhaps the NetFIX and NetDEV ideas would be applicable too.
Check the project websites and also see Toni's post for more details.
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NetBeans 6.7 is now available for download. The site includes their usual screencasts (see specially the Overview) and Tutorials. The new features I find most interesting are the Connected Developer and the Build Tool support (including Hudson and Maven). Other features include support for more Dynamic Languages, Java Desktop/Swing and Web and Java EE; bundled JavaEE 6 and JavaFX 1.2 will be in later releases.
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Evans Data just published their User's Choice on Software Development Environments. The survey asks for satisfaction of the respondents on the IDE features they used and weights them based on the aggregated priorities to determine satisfaction indexes. The overall satisfaction rankings are: IBM's Rational Tools, MS's Visual Studio, NetBeans, JDeveloper, Sun Studio, Delphi, IntelliJ, Eclipse. |
Note: my biggest issue with the EDC Users' Choice methodology is that they do not weigh in number of users for a given option, not do they disclose enough data to assess the relevance of the samples. So, as far as I've been able to determine, a few very happy customers can give a small, narrow, vendor the top ranking. Another caution area is the weights assigned to each feature to compute the overall ranking, but that is easier to navigate by using the per-feature rankings that are included in the report. As always, if you are interested in the topic, I recommend you to check out the report for details.
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The Release Candidate 3 for NetBeans 6.7 is now available and so are several posts highlighting some of its new features. Check out:
• Petr on
Hudson Support,
Check out previous entries tagged NetBeans for highlights on other features like the Connected Developer (and Kenai), more scripting support, and how to use NB 6.7 with GlassFish v3. |
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The second release candidate for NetBeans 6.7 is now available - check RC2 Download Page and James' Writeup. The next RC should be the final. |
Note that NB 6.7 still includes the old "GFv3 Prelude" release and you need to manually install GFv3 Preview (the J1 release). For example, check Arun's writeup for has a detailed explanation on how to use NB 6.7 to write Servlet 3.0 and EJB 3.1 Applications
Somehow this one popped into my head:
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
(...from A Visit from St. Nicholas)
Replace Christmas with JavaOne, and the "not stirring" with "releasing furiously"... and there we are :-)
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Three major releases today: GFv3 Preview, OpenSolaris 2009.6 and NetBeans 6.7 RC1. NetBeans 6.7 comes with Connected Developer features like integration with Project Kenai and integration with Bugzilla, native Maven support, out-of-the box Grails 1.1 support, support for Hudson and easy integration with GlassFish v3 Preview. More details in the RC1 Info page, the New and Noteworthy page and the Download page. Also see the blogs by SDNNews and James. |
And, if you are at JavaOne, check out TS5055 and Bob's technical keynote tomorrow afternoon.
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NetBeans 6.7 Beta is Now Available. I'll highlight two of the Many Features: Kenai Integration and Hudson Integration. The first one continues to flesh out the story of the Connected Developer; the second is yet another example of Hudson Adoption. Check out the Home Page, the Release Notes or go and just Download it! |
The connected developer story is beginning to look pretty good; I'll come back to it after I find time to write a few background posts needed to provide context for the story.
Added - Also see JAG's post on the topic.
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Two news items for the cost of one: First an Announcement of the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.5.1. This is a minor release that bundles GlassFish v2.1 instead of GlassFish v2 and incorporates NB 6.5 Patches and other Bug fixes. Check out the Full Details, and then you can go to the Download Page. |
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The second is a call for participation in NB 6.7 NetCAT. NetBeans 6.7 (previously 7.0) is the release targeted for JavaOne; it recently released M2 (Download, Details) and its features include Ergonomic IDE and even better non-Java language support, including PHP, C/C++, Ruby/Rails and Groovy/Grails. |
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NB 6.7 follows NB 6.1 (Apr 08) and NB 6.5 (Nov 08) |
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If you are a Woodstock user you may have seen the announcement from November 3rd where the NetBeans team announced they would stop development of new features in Woodstock. The full context was provided in a subsequent event (Archive - check slide 11-13 in slide deck).
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The outcome was that Sun would work on two fronts: adding support for FireFox 3 on Woodstock 4.2 and a partner-based strategy. On the first front, check today's email and this wiki page; on the second, today we are announcing a relationship with ICEfaces. Check: John's post, Migration page at ICEfaces and Migration Doc at NetBeans. |
The ICEfaces NetBeans plugin can be obtained at ICEfaces.org or from the NB's Update Center, see under tools->plugins. And, as John says, stay tuned for more details in these areas.
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We've covered NetBeans 6.5 progress (Beta, RC) previously and we're now very happy to report on the final release. As always, the "New and Noteworthy" page is a great reference for the many new features, the big ones and (what can appear as) the smaller ones. "Compile-On-Save" is probably a little bit of both and certainly plays very well with the Deploy-On-Change feature and GlassFish v3's session preservation across redeployments. Support for PHP and Groovy/Grails are also additional signs of the ongoing push on dynamic and scripting languages on the JVM. |
Get your favorite NetBeans IDE Bundle from the download page, it's very well organized. Note that you can start small and add features with a finer granularity if you want. You'll see that GlassFish is included in the "Java" bundle, but also that GlassFish v3 Prelude is in the Ruby bundle.
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NetBeans 6.5 is scheduled to be released on November 20th (see Roadmap). NB 6.5 includes many new features and is the first NB release to include GlassFish v3 (Prelude); you can help its quality by testing the latest Release Candidate. Check out:
• Overall Information on the RC release.
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NetBeans is 10 years old! The celebration is happening here (check out this interview of James Gosling). Certainly a lot has happened in all those years to have NetBeans reach its current quality and feature level. The NetBeans download matrix is probably a great way to summarize the breath and depth of the project. |
GlassFish is listed among others as a sister project. Keep an eye on the NetBeans web site for NetBeans 6.5 RC (Release Candidate). It should show-up anytime now and offer support for GlassFish v3 prelude.
What were you doing 10 years ago?
