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NetBeans IDE 6.10 M1: Initial Impressions

09.02.2010
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So far, NetBeans IDE 6.10, Milestone 1,  (download here) is quite impressive IMO.

It is good to see some enhancements I requested not long ago implemented: 178107. Though it is not marked as fixed, I saw the improved behavior in the code when a controller is generated. Sadly, however, the fix for issue 189366 caused a runtime error, described in issue 189997.

It is great to see Visual Web back and in all its glory:

Of course, the above is not available by default, but a quick trip to the Plugin Manager (under the Tools menu) will make it available to you. I've only done some preliminary testing, nothing fancy or complicated, and it worked perfectly. Besides that, the Web Service wizard looks and feels more natural, while the JPA controllers are smarter.

It was good to see the editor wrapping finally up and working:

However, highlighting words right where the line wraps needs some work as the cursor moves between lines. Though the performance is a bit slow, it isn't bad for a M1 release. I've seen worse when the word wrapping was in its early stages.

Overall, I think its the best M1 we've seen for a while.

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Jessica-Aileen Alten replied on Fri, 2010/09/03 - 2:37am

Visual Web aka Woodstock: Back to the stoneage. I've never seen such a buggy framework in production before. Handling tables is a nightmare - on the first view simple, but absolutely overcomplicated when you are trying to do more sophisticated things like selecting rows with a checkbox or radiobutton: You must use a phase change listener!

I'll never ever touch these components again!

Helmut Juskewycz replied on Fri, 2010/09/03 - 9:28am

So the only news is that Visual Web is back and according to Jessica still very buggy? Greatest Milestone of all time then?

Geertjan Wielenga replied on Fri, 2010/09/03 - 11:28am

I strongly doubt that Jessica has used the same plugin being referred to here. (Plus, that wasn't "the only news" in this article, was it?)

Jessica-Aileen Alten replied on Fri, 2010/09/03 - 1:50pm

I'm talking about Woodstock 4.2 resp. 4.3 and JSF 1.2 with JSP - after a short review, these seems to be the libraries which are used in NB 6.10. And I'm talking about my 15 Woodstock error reports, from which 8 errors are unfixed.

Geertjan Wielenga replied on Fri, 2010/09/03 - 8:56pm

Please feel free to create an issue in Issuezilla, write to the mailing list, or if you prefer I can connect you directly with the responsible engineers (drop me an e-mail at geertjan dot wielenga at sun dot com).

Andy Gibson replied on Sun, 2010/09/05 - 12:51am

Apart from legacy apps already using this, there should be no need for the Woodstock stuff, or even the Visual Web Pack. It's just not how you need to write JSF web applications.

 

Javier Ortiz replied on Thu, 2010/09/09 - 8:20am

As I mentioned I based my claims on a short and basic test. Stuff that failed on previous versions for me.

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