Published by Adam Myatt on 17 Jun 2009
NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Candidate 3 Now Available?.
Read about it here : http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1396
Download it here : http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.7/rc/
Published by Adam Myatt on 04 Jun 2009
Recently I was looking through the admin tools for my website and blog, http://www.pronetbeans.com. One area I occassionally glance at, but usually ignore, is the search terms section. When users enter the site from a Google or Yahoo or Dogpile or **insert your engine here** search, the search terms typically get logged.
I was curious what the buzz around NetBeans this year since I’m currently at JavaOne so I thought I’d lookup and mention some of the most searched for (or interesting) terms that people have searched for and hit my site with between January 01, 2009 and today, June 4, 2009.
Published by Adam Myatt on 03 Jun 2009
Several pages have started showing up on the NetBeans Wiki that name NetBeans 6.8 as the next version number. Some of the pages to keep an eye on as the content is added include:
Editor Plans for NB 6.8 : http://wiki.netbeans.org/EditorPlan68
Some of the more interesting (and frustrating issues) that might be addressed include :
- Fix error badges and error underlining
- Support for Class-Path attribute in manifest (finally!)
- Optimize Imports
- Make the IDE usable during scanning (Scanning and Data Usage) - this issue has been hotly debated in a variety of bug reports from some frustrated users.
- Format code and fix imports on multiple files (code beautifier)
Database Plans for 6.8 : http://wiki.netbeans.org/DatabasePlan68
Some of the possible improvements for the database features include:
- Improved SQL code completion
- Embedded SQL code completion (probably a big maybe)
General performance plans : http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB68PerfPlan
Published by Adam Myatt on 03 Jun 2009
An interesting note, just mentioned by John Brock and Sharat Chander during their Kenai BOF…. sometime in the next few weeks, the Kenai APIs will be published for public use. Very cool. The APIs are RESTful, I believe they said, and will allow developers to pull data from any Kenai feature (bug tracker, wiki, members) and push data from anywhere to Kenai projects.
They also touched on the earlier announcement that Kenai will talk to the Hudson continuous integration server. Kenai will provide an actual Hudson server (you won’t need your own server). The feature will not be active by default. You will need to email the Kenai admins to request access to the private beta of Hudson support in Kenai. Sign me up!!!
They also announced a really cool Kenai feature to be released in the near future… voice over IP. Each project will have its own conference room where you can utilize an VOIP conference. It will be interesting to see how this works.
Published by Adam Myatt on 03 Jun 2009
Tuesday night during JavaOne’s late night BOF sessions, I was surfing through the highly addictive chat client, DarkChat. You never know who is going to pop in… James Gosling suddently dropped in to chat for a few minutes. It’s a small world (DarkChat at least).
Published by Adam Myatt on 03 Jun 2009
Sitting in a technical session here at JavaOne, titled ‘Continuous Integration in the Cloud’ with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Jesse Glick.
The session focused on a using Hudson overview, using HUdson in a distributed master/salve manner, and some of the newer use cases (such as with clouds and Kenai).
One of the cool items discussed was the Hudson Amazon EC2 plugin which allows you to automatically provision slaves on EC2 on demand. I haven’t heard it mentioned (yet), but I would imagine in the near future you will be able to do the same in Sun Cloud.
I didn’t hear much about Hudson and NetBeans or Hudson and Kenai. Maybe more later at their BOF.
Published by Adam Myatt on 03 Jun 2009
In NetBeans 6.8, it looks like there are tentative plans to implement an embedded web browser or web preview directly inside NetBeans.
The concept is to minimize the amount of time the user spends switching between the IDE and external web browser. Hopefully, it will work more like a WYSIWYG preview feature (think Dreamweaver style) and not a thick or heavy web browser. I know I’ve hoped for years to have a web preview option directly in NB. Hopefully this addresses some of that need.
Published by Adam Myatt on 02 Jun 2009
I always browse the “recent changes” section of the NetBeans wiki. This lets me see what’s been going on in the last few days or weeks if I haven’t stayed up to date. Recently I saw this page, JavaEE6 Integration, appear in the Wiki as recently modified. Looks like the next version of NetBeans will start to provide Java EE 6 support. Maybe this has been blogged to death already, but it’s the first I’ve seen of it. (maybe I’ve been under a rock). Very cool. I’m especially looking forward to Servlet 3.0 support.
Published by Adam Myatt on 02 Jun 2009
During the opening keynote session Tuesday morning of JavaOne 2009, the first presenter showed a nifty Java app developed in JavaFX connected to a massive chat engine. The intent is to encourage people to network and collaborate during the conference. However it had some nifty effects baked in. During the session, they announced that by the end everyone will receive a link to download it. I’ll post some screenshots once I get it installed.
Update : It took a little longer than “by the end of the general session”, but eventually Sun sent out custom links for each attendee to use DarkChat. See images below.
(sorry I blurred some names here so this looks a little dodgy)
The chat app is exclusive to attendees at JavaOne, but demos JavaFX nicely. I believe they also stated during the general session that this is backed by the DarkStar web/gaming engine.
Published by Adam Myatt on 02 Jun 2009
Today at JavaOne, Sun announces the Java Store, an online community where developers can publish and download Java applications for world wide access. Currently in Beta, it will be available later this year.
James Gosling was onstage to announce it with a nifty T-shirt “Turning Labors of Love into Day Jobs”.
The store features several initial applications, where you can drag and drop applications out of the store to install them. A new store front with advanced features is planned to roll out soon as well.
The general concept is that developers with good ideas should be able to deploy applications to a world-wide audience without having to form companies, buy hardware, and incur large costs.
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