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NetBeans 4.1 code freeze
Posted by ludo on April 12, 2005 at 05:17 PM | Comments (6)
"Bonjour, comment Java?"
This Friday will be code freeze for the NetBeans
4.1 release... What? I cannot
code anymore in this branch? Oh well, so I must have free
time to entertain this blog I created long time ago... Netbeans 4.1 is
not yet out of the door, and people are already asking about the
content of NetBeans
4.2. Come on! 4.1 is not enough?
Faster, cleaner, simpler... ANT based, JDK 1.4/J2SE 5.0 ready (oops
this was already there last year in NetBeans 4.0), multiple source
roots, test roots, CVS-PCVS-VSS, HTTP monitor, Swing form editor, and my favorite one: finally J2EE 1.4
support. In a one click installation, you have the IDE, the Ease of Use
J2EE wizards and the necessary J2EE 1.4 runtime environment (the
Reference Implementation), free.
One click install, and you can create web applications, EJB Modules or
J2EE Applications, add servlets, JSPs, EJBs (all of them), create web
services, consume web services, use databases, call other EJBs,
refactor your projects including deployment descriptors, and of course
run or debug them in a one click popup menu that will build, assemble,
start the server, deploy and display the correct URL...
Not ready yet for the jump in J2EE land? Need some help? Here it is, in
the embedded Java
BluePrints Solutions Catalog,
available from the help menu, that provides ready to use J2EE solutions
with a complete description of the problem and how it has been
addressed by the J2EE gurus...Click on the button to install the solution, and you are
ready to learn/run/debug/modify/refactor/explore from within the IDE.
Suddenly, the IDE becomes much more than an IDE, it becomes a learning and
training tool..It sheds light on J2EE development and how easy it becomes when the correct tool is used.
With all that, why would we need a NetBeans 4.2 or NetBeans 5.0 ?
Let us know :-)
Ludo
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Comments
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Give me (some small, some big features):
competative CVS integration (e.g. VCS groups a working firstlevel citizen)
make 'Tools/Synchronize' work on inner classes
generally make everything the same for inner classes :)
collaboration features
NetBeans library definitions that can be stored to CVS
a 'New NetBeans Module' wizard
more refactorings
support groovy :)
smarter 'Suggestions'. E.g. showing all errors, all warnings, unsused imports .. (like the Eclipse 'Problems' window (sorry) )
...to be continued...
Posted by: herkules on April 13, 2005 at 04:52 AM
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I'd like to have a (better) JUnit and/or TestNG integration. The feature to generate JUnit test cases really rocks, but what about debugging (not just running) JUnit tests? I really don't know how to do that with the current 4.1 beta.
Posted by: klausstake on April 14, 2005 at 03:52 AM
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For groovy support in
NetBeans today, go to https://coyote.dev.java.net/
This is a new java.net project to develop a set of
NetBeans modules to help developers write code in dynamic languages
like groovy and Jython.
For a 'new NetBeans Module'
wizard, things are under way: read http://apisupport.netbeans.org/new-apisupport.html
Posted by: ludo on April 14, 2005 at 01:31 PM
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Debugging JUnit tests hasn't been a problem to me. Open the test and press ctrl-shift-F5.
Yes, I know Coyote .... but thats not a very mature tool (and refuses to work on 4.1) ... and you asked for 4.2 :)
Posted by: herkules on April 15, 2005 at 12:52 AM
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Please look at
my blog for my wish list
Posted by: vbrabant on April 17, 2005 at 07:56 AM
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What is lacking in Netbeans Any version
1) Struts / Tiles support (you already have the page flow module for J2ME apps - us it for Struts/Tiles also. And I'm expecting the same for Swing too, pared with support for new layoutMangaers will make it a hit (When can we see the platform agnostic GUI-builder you folks announced (by mistake) a month or two back - please make it available for NB, not just Java Studio Creator)
Editor:
2) Introduce variable
3) pop-up window: let say you have a method String someThing(int a, in b, int c, ..String g)
when typing this.someThing( I want a popup window over the method with focus on the current typed parameter, and the next, the next after that, high lighting the currently selected parameter )
4) Refacoring for JSP, JSF, struts-config, (does it work for web.xml?) etc.
5) Speed Up the Editor
6) (A MUST)Make a JavaDoc popup preference which allow me to set the popup time -so i do not have to see the popup window for every method (Just the one I pause over for say a second or so)
7) More to come
Posted by: bakbjo on April 17, 2005 at 10:45 AM
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