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NetBeans: Helping Java Developers Create Cross-platform Desktop, Web and Mobile Apps

4.0 Already Released, 4.1 Beta Available for Download Now Too
By Java News Desk
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February 27, 2005 12:00 AM EST
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NetBeans 4.0 has already been released, the first open source IDE to support the new J2SE 5.0 "Tiger" language features. The 4.0 release includes a project system based on the Apache Software Foundation's Apache Ant, and extended support for both the J2EE 1.3 and J2EE 1.4 standard.

Now rhe NetBeans open source project has also announced the release of NetBeans IDE 4.1 Beta: included in this Beta release is a special Eclipse Project Import module available from the Welcome Screen of NetBeans IDE 4.1 Beta.  

NetBeans provides a pure Java technology integrated development environment for Windows, Linux, the Solaris OS, and Mac OS X.

"When you download the NetBeans IDE," says Netbeans.org at its site, "you get a modular, standards-based development environment with all the key functionality in one download, rather than a series of additional plug-ins. Write, compile, debug and deploy Java programs for the Solaris, Windows, Linux and Macintosh platforms."

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dfrt59 02/26/05 11:40:53 AM EST

#### Why Eclipse developers won't put a new face on that monstrosity of menus, configuration panels, and project management is beyond me. ####

Which build are you using?
aCapitalist 02/26/05 11:31:10 AM EST

I'm mostly doing C#/.NET stuff these days, but I still like to keep in touch with what's going on in the Java world, so I downloaded JDK 5.0, Eclipse 3.1M3, the latest IDEA, and a NetBeans 4.0 RC last weekend.

I like the interface of NetBeans and IDEA. Eclipse is just horrible. Why Eclipse developers won't put a new face on that monstrosity of menus, configuration panels, and project management is beyond me. But even with JDK 5.0 the Swing fonts look like dog barf. The menu fonts are all fubar and even with AA enabled in the text editor, the fonts look like crap.

Come on Sun, this is 2004, wake up. Give us native fonts in Swing for the major platforms.
finnw 02/26/05 11:30:21 AM EST

Shame they haven't improved the speed of the background compilation (that is used to update the code completion database). One of my more complex files (which contains 9 inner classes) still takes about 15 seconds to rescan whenever I change anything.

And theres still no 'exclude from .WAR' option on individual files.