NetBeans 4.1 Update:

Hurrah! NetBeans 4.1 has "fixed" the replace dialog problem that I blogged about last year... Eclipse could limit "search/replace" to the selected text and NetBeans couldn't.

The new "Replace" dialog allows you to limit the scope to the selected text:

Many thanks to the responsible party. It's a small change, but one which really makes a big difference (to me).

On a different note... I ran through the tutorial on creating a Web Service and Web Service Client using NetBeans 4.1 RC1. Very nice work!