NetBeans 4.1 code freeze

"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