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NetBeans 4.1 Available

Submitted by kebernet on Thu, 05/12/2005 - 12:21
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I guess I missed it yesterday, but NetBeans 4.1 is good to go. I never played with the betas of this, as 4.0 has kept me happy for a while. As I understand it, the new Web Services development stuff in 4.1 is killer. It has some new EJB develop/debug features that are supposed to be good. For me the most interesting bit is they have finally fleshed out the 1.5 stuff, so Enums, Generics and Annotations are now part of the autocomplete/hints system, which is killer. From what Josh hinted at, I think the 4.0 retarded ANT buildfiels have been reworked into something more easily distributable to your buddies (or the world). I will definitely be playing with it this weekend and will try and post a review.

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RE: NetBeans 4.1 Available

Submitted by atrox (not verified) on Thu, 05/12/2005 - 22:45.
And Eclipse 3.0.2 just came out, whats NetBeans again ;).

RE: NetBeans 4.1 Available

Submitted by cooper (not verified) on Fri, 05/13/2005 - 09:08.
Yeah, I know. I will freely admit that in a lot of ways, Eclipse is superior to NetBeans. There is the obvious aspect of SWT being leaner and faster than Swing, but while high, NB's run requirements don't make me gag. The big thing is, and I am trying to decide what I think about this trend, is I am not sure what I think of the "Everything is a plug in" deal. When you get NB, you get the J2EE tools, the SOA tools, the GUI tools. There are plug ins, but they are usually more related to things that are extra or uncommong -- you have to download the plug in for the J2ME debugger, for instance. Firefox, which I use, is much the same. Everything is a plug in. The thing I am finding more and more with FF or Eclipse, though, is if you really want to take advantage of them you have to know about/keep up with/discover new plug ins all the time. There is something to be said for NB which gives me a whole development suite on the first download.

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