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. Related entries tagged netbeans

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, • Geertjan on Maven Support, and • Octavian on Subversion 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.

If you publish bits to the Java.Net Maven2 repository, you should check out Kohsuke's writeup from a couple of days ago. No changes if you only download the bits and have been using the recommended http://download.java.net/maven/2/ path.

The reason for the change was just operational, we were running against the limits of the previous setup; one of the disadvantages of our continuous growth. Thanks to Kohsuke for handling the fire-drill.

Julien has a very nice detailed description of how to build the GlassFish v3 Server from the SVN Sources using Maven. Instructions and a couple of screenshots. The distributed (and just "different" than GFv2) way of building GFv3 has been a common source of discussions in the DEV alias; hopefully Julien's note will help a bit. Added: Arun covers the topic in TOTD #33.

Jakub's Building a Jersey WebApp ended with: mvn tomcat:run but his New Sample now ends as: mvn glassfish:run

Jakub's note includes full instructions, sources and annotated run screenshots. Check it out!

One of the new features in GlassFIsh v3 is that it can be embedded. Kohsuke and Vivek started playing seriously with this for a demo before JavaOne and it got a lot of attention (see embedded blogs @ TA). Now Arun has written a description of how to do this using NetBeans and Maven.

Check out the details at Arun's Note; download GF v3 TP2 and NetBeans and let us know how it goes.

In an Enterprise Tech Tip, Rama describes how to use the JAX-WS Maven plugin to develop Web services. The article describes why you may be interested in the  plugin: don't have to get the JAX-WS dependencies, set up the classpath, and configure and invoke the tool tasks for compilation and packaging -- steps required by the Ant tasks.

The different tooling options around Metro are described in an Earlier  Post.

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Kohsuke generated a dependency graph of GlassFish v3 modules and it's dependent jars. Creating such graphs is not only a fun exercise but also reveals useful information such as redundant dependency edges as discussed in the blog.

An Earlier Podcast talks in detail about the module sub-system that leads to the generation of this graph.
You can read more about GlassFish v3. 

Wouter is on a roll with yet another fine article, this time on Seam, Maven, NetBeans and GlassFish. Previous articles include: • Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2 • Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2 • Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish

Wouter continues showing how to use Maven and GlassFish, this time he shows how to Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish. Also check these earlier posts by Wouter on GlassFish: Building and Deploying GF Apps using Maven and Invoking EJBs in GF from Tomcat.

Building on the work presented in this previous entry, Wouter van Reeven has an article on "Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2" and well as a follow-up called "Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2". With the increasing importance of Maven with GlassFish v3, you may also want to check out Paul's presentation on Maven 2 (pdf|mp3) (part of the Brown Bag series).

GlassFish can serve different purposes beyond being a complete enterprise open source application server. Based on the fact that it is also the Java EE 5 reference implementation, Geronimo and OpenEJB commiter and long-time NetBeans user, Jacek Laskowski has a nice article putting GlassFish's EJB container to work. The article explains how to add Maven support to NetBeans 6 and to use it to handle project dependencies, keeping your pom.xml always up to date. Jacek refers twice to the well written EJB FAQ for Java EE 5 clarifications or GlassFish specifics. Jacek has more GlassFish-related articles here (in Polish).

Similar to the User Experience Meetings conducted throughout the v2 development process, Anissa is scheduling a series of open-to-all brown bag series for GlassFish v3 builds. With the recent move to subversion (on our way to Mercurial), is it probably a good time for everyone still using CVS exclusively to get up to speed with the first meeting on October 30th 2007. Maven 2 is also a key component to GlassFish v3 and will be covered in the next meeting. Details (hours, conference call numbers, slides) are available here. Times are pretty US and Europe-friendly. Calls should be available for replay for everyone else.

Note for the non-US audience that "Brown Bag" refers to people bringing their own lunch (in a brown bag). Hopefully this explanation is not too far off as I'm not American either... ;)

Kohsuke has set up mirrors for the Java.Net Maven repositories,archive-old-02 • As a mirror for https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/ (m1), use http://download.java.net/maven/1/ • As a mirror for https://maven2-repository.dev.java.net/ (m2), use http://download.java.net/maven/2/ Thanks, Kohsuke.

Some people have asked for a single JAR that contains all the Java EE 5 APIs, for things like compiling against them. Ludo has just posted such a JAR to the Maven Repository at Java.Net. Check Ludo's blog for some more details.