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NetBeans: the Java EE 6 IDE

Posted by: Ludovic Champenois on 08/03/2009
Bonjour Comment Java?

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today is some type of historical milestone for Java EE 6: This is Milestone 1 of NetBeans 6.8 and Java EE 6 support with the latest GlassFish v3 (build 57). The bundle is only 132Mb and contains everything you need to start with Java EE 6: the IDE, the Java EE 6 current runtime, the JavaEE 6 JavaDocs (for code completion), the JavaDB database, and very very cool features from the plaform or its implementation:
  • No Need for web.xml in Web Application  (and support for web-fragment.xml)
  • Servlet Annotations
  • EJB inside Web Application Projects
  • Embedded Web Browser for fast testing (Mozzilla XULRunner)
  • GlassFish v3 build 57 pre-registered
  • Stellar GlassFish v3 startup time 
  • Stellar Deploy on Save for Java EE projects (redeploy in less than a second), with Session preservation
  • JSF 2.0 and Facelet Support
  • Java EE 6 Javadoc (preview) in Code completion (not many IDEs have this support:-)
  • Singleton EJB support
  • All current Java EE 6 APIs available: 
    • REST JAX-RS 1.1 and associated wizards
    • JAXB 2.2
    • Metro 2.0
    • JAX-WS 2.2
    • JPA 2.0
    • Beans Validation Framework
    • etc...
  • Maven support
And more and more (i.e all the NetBeans 6.7.x features as well).

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Read more at  http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB68 and get the Milestone 1 bits at http://bits.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.8/m1/


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Ludovic Champenois

Ludovic Champenois is a Technology Director and Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems, and has been with Sun and Java for the last 11 years. He is one of the tech lead and architect on Sun's Application Server and is responsible to ensure best in class developer experience for Java EE programmers with Sun Application Server and tools. (NetBeans and Eclipse). Ludovic is also heavily involved in leading Sun's open source initiative (Projects GlassFish, Ajax jMaki, Phobos, OpenSolaris and SAMP).

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