I just wanted to make a quick mention for those of you who don’t check the
NetBeans official timeline as often as I do. As the release date for the Beta of NetBeans 6 approaches, the NetBeans team has added a flag on the timeline for NetBeans 7. With such major changes between 5.5 and 6.0 it will be interesting to see what the NetBeans gurus have in store for us for 7.0.

http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/roadmap.html

Anyone from the NetBeans team care to comment on the tentative direction or theme for NB7?