Google and NetBeans extensibility

Bonjour, comment Java?

Yesterday The announcement of the collaboration between Sun and Google has been well received and talked about. So what about NetBeans and Google? I wanted to test the new NetBeans 5.0 Beta wizards to develop  new NetBeans modules, and guess what  I was able to do in 16 minutes? Well, a Google search Toolbar inside the NetBeans toolbar... See the result:

See the new "Google:" entry field in the NetBeans toolbar... If you enter some text there and press ENTER, a browser is shown with the result of the search. In the NetBeans explorer, you can see the little NetBeans module.




IF you want to play with it, you can download file NBM (NetBeans Module file) and read the NetBeans documentation to see how to install it in the IDE.
I wonder when the Google toolbar will show NetBeans as a possible download... Ludo

PS: Update: Geertjan Wielenga, the NetBeans docs guru just created a tutorial for NetBeans based on this module: check it out