The NetBeans team has released the BETA edition of NetBeans 6.1 (Download it here : http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/beta/).

NetBeans 6.1 Beta Release 

Included in this release are :

 -  Performance Improvements (JSP parsing, Incremental parsing in Java editor, faster cold start, Visual Web designer, and more).
 - Windowing system improvements
 - Sharability of libraries
 - JSF CRUD Generator
 - MySQL support in Database Explorer
 - Java Beans support
 - Javadoc code completion
 - Spring Framework support
 - Web Services Axis2 support

For the entire list of release notes visit this link : 

http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/relnotes.html#601