
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

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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