The NetBeans open source project is proud to announce the early access release of the NetBeans IDE 4.1 as the project delivers significant new development capabilities for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE) including Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components and Web Services.
For downloads of this release go to:
* http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html
For the quick start guide, see:
* http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/quickstart-j2ee-41.html
Online 4.1 Early Access announcement and links to more information:
* http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/announce.html
This early access release has over 15 new modules for developing J2EE 1.4 applications and is built on the novel and breakthrough NetBeans 4.0 technology. Users can develop programs for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), and now J2EE EJBs and Web Services. Using the free Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 beta as the deployment runtime and with NetBeans guiding the developer and automatically building the underlying J2EE infrastructure, learning about and developing J2EE 1.4 applications has never been easier. To further assist the developer, there are numerous samples of J2EE applications easily accessible from within the IDE, as well contributions from the J2EE Java BluePrints catalog.
With a pure Java technology integrated development environment and cross platform availability for Windows, Linux and the Solaris Operating System, this is the best time to get a look at the future.
The next early access release is planned for January 2005.
Key Features
Create an EJB Module and EJB Session Beans
* The NetBeans IDE guides the user through the process to easily learn how to write an EJB as well as deploy, package and test applications
* A GUI is available to select an EJB and perform the required tasks such as adding business methods and editing deployment descriptors
* All EJB infrastructure methods are generated automatically and are hidden in a power code fold
* The resulting EJB module can easily be added to a J2EE application
* The NetBeans project structure matches J2EE Java BluePrints standards and relies on the Ant open standard for the build system
Calling EJBs
* It's easy for the developer to create a servlet and call an EJB from this servlet code
* The Web Application can then be added to a J2EE Application that will also have the corresponding EJB Module and this J2EE Application is then deployed to the application server
Develop Web Services
* Developers can create and modify Web Services and deploy, package and test them from the IDE
* Developers can register existing Web Services to the IDE, and then easily add the code that will call these Web Services
* Developers can test all the registered Web Services from the IDE by simply entering the input parameters of each operation
* The NetBeans IDE guides the user through the process to easily learn how to write EJB and J2EE Applications to select a web service and perform required tasks
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available (15 messages)
- Posted by: Robert Demmer
- Posted on: October 27 2004 07:09 EDT
Threaded Messages (15)
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by bad mASH on October 29 2004 15:56 EDT
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Chris Jennings on October 29 2004 16:18 EDT
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by YOYO XXX on October 30 2004 01:14 EDT
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Bernhard Messerer on October 30 2004 03:36 EDT
- Pay Attention to the topic by Sripada Das on October 30 2004 05:29 EDT
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Bernhard Messerer on October 30 2004 03:36 EDT
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by M A on November 01 2004 07:44 EST
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by YOYO XXX on October 30 2004 01:14 EDT
- XDoclet supported in MyEclipse by Forro Gabriel on October 30 2004 08:40 EDT
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Mike Cornell on October 30 2004 18:11 EDT
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Petr Jiricka on October 31 2004 05:44 EST
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Iwan Eising on November 01 2004 04:43 EST
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by bad mASH on November 01 2004 09:49 EST
- Maven support in NetBeans by Trung Duc Tran on November 01 2004 11:50 EST
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NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Petr Jiricka on October 31 2004 05:44 EST
- Net Beans Rulz by Travis Berthelot on November 01 2004 12:04 EST
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Chris Jennings on October 29 2004 16:18 EDT
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Rashid Jilani on October 30 2004 18:18 EDT
- NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available by Mike Cornell on October 30 2004 20:26 EDT
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- Posted by: bad mASH
- Posted on: October 29 2004 15:56 EDT
- in response to Robert Demmer
I love NB ; however I am trying to fugure out how they can have Early Access for 4.1 when 4.0 is still in Beta 2.
And , why don't any of the IDE's recognize that there is this thing called XDoclet which is a standard tool of trade for J2EE developers. Stop duplicating what Xdoclet does and instead provide a compatibility path.
I am sticking with 3.6 which allows me to mount and unmount Xodclet generated sources at will. The ability to mount /unmount any source folder into any project was very cool -- too bad 4.x doesn't have it. -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Chris Jennings
- Posted on: October 29 2004 16:18 EDT
- in response to bad mASH
why don't any of the IDE's recognize that there is this thing called XDoclet which is a standard tool of trade for J2EE developers. Stop duplicating what Xdoclet does and instead provide a compatibility path.
+1
My example is IDEA. I _love_ that tool!! but I've got no use for the EJB support since I also love XDoclet. The EJB management starts to feel like too much IDE relianceto me.
Having said that, I also know that a team I work near has considered moving from JBuilder to IDEA because of the EJB support. But they don't use XDoclet so phooey on them ;-) -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: YOYO XXX
- Posted on: October 30 2004 13:14 EDT
- in response to Chris Jennings
I also know that a team I work near has considered moving from JBuilder to IDEA because of the EJB support. But they don't use XDoclet so phooey on them ;-)
Have they ever tried to develop an EJB in IDEA ? [b]IDEA's EJBs dont work, because IDEA generates wrong descriptors ![/b] You cannot even fix that, because IDEA overwrites any DD changes. -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Bernhard Messerer
- Posted on: October 30 2004 15:36 EDT
- in response to YOYO XXX
_That_ would be new to me... I found IDEA's EJB support very usable... not as sophisticated as JBuilder's, but then IDEA's general "cool" features can be applied to EJBs and together with its "special" EJB support this works _very_ well (and, great advantage, without any errors ;-))!
Which version of IDEA did you use?
regards,
Messi -
Pay Attention to the topic[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sripada Das
- Posted on: October 30 2004 17:29 EDT
- in response to Bernhard Messerer
Whats wrong with you guys ? This is a topic for netbeans4.1. -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: M A
- Posted on: November 01 2004 07:44 EST
- in response to Chris Jennings
-1 ;)why don't any of the IDE's recognize that there is this thing called XDoclet which is a standard tool of trade for J2EE developers. Stop duplicating what Xdoclet does and instead provide a compatibility path.
+1My example is IDEA. I _love_ that tool!! but I've got no use for the EJB support since I also love XDoclet. The EJB management starts to feel like too much IDE relianceto me.Having said that, I also know that a team I work near has considered moving from JBuilder to IDEA because of the EJB support. But they don't use XDoclet so phooey on them ;-) -
XDoclet supported in MyEclipse[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Forro Gabriel
- Posted on: October 30 2004 08:40 EDT
- in response to bad mASH
Hi,
try the MyEclipse (www.myeclipseide.com) plugin with its built-in XDoclet support.
Gabriel -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mike Cornell
- Posted on: October 30 2004 18:11 EDT
- in response to bad mASH
I love NB ; however I am trying to fugure out how they can have Early Access for 4.1 when 4.0 is still in Beta 2.
All of the J2EE support is the 4.1 build. I'm thinking 4.1 EA is just 4.0 Beta 2 with the J2EE support. It's going to essentially be the same product, with just straight up J2EE support.
I'm gathering that's why it's 4.1 as opposed to 5.0.
As far as XDoclet goes...what are you looking for in terms of support. Perhaps the AutoCommenter in NB could be extended to support it more directly. I know you can add in your own tags whenever, but, I'm guessing you want more direct support? -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Petr Jiricka
- Posted on: October 31 2004 05:44 EST
- in response to Mike Cornell
All of the J2EE support is the 4.1 build. I'm thinking 4.1 EA is just 4.0 Beta 2 with the J2EE support. It's going to essentially be the same product, with just straight up J2EE support.
That's correct at this point, although the final version of NetBeans 4.1 will have additional improvements and features, beyond J2EE support. Stay tuned.
As for the XDoclet support, we realize that this is something many people would like to have. We will not be providing XDoclet support as a part of the base product, but there is definitely room for external plugin writers in this area. Sun's plan for a future release is to provide support for EJB 3.0, whose approach is somewhat similar to XDoclet, plus it's standardized at the specification level. -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Iwan Eising
- Posted on: November 01 2004 04:43 EST
- in response to Petr Jiricka
There are many tools that generate code (XDoclet and Torque to name just 2). I for example don't like my own code to be mixed with generated code, the fact that in NB 4.x I can only use free-form projects to support this is not very developer-friendly, I therefor would like to see some support for these kind of tools, even when it is just the possibility to 'mount' additional directories that contain sources.
I realize that one possibility is to create another project (jar-project) that contains the generated code, and then add a dependency with this project... although there is a problem in NB 4.0b2 (which is already reported) that doesn't copy all dependencies from one project to others (including libraries) as part of the build.
Iwan -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: bad mASH
- Posted on: November 01 2004 09:49 EST
- in response to Petr Jiricka
Here is my wishlist :
1) Maven POM : Load up the project from Maven POM . Retain Ant support but suport Maven as well : I suspect a lot of large projects are slowly moving over to Maven. Even if you don't provide direct maven support, initialize the NB projects with dependecies and libraries defined in Maven POM. No sense in me loading the lib jars manually when it can be done automtiaclly by interpreting Maven POM.
2) Automatically mount generated code : most people create a differetnt ditrectory/package for their generated code source code. and this diectory is often deleted and created again. Don't pop an error message when this happens; just know that this is a generated src and will need to be monted again .
3) Middlegen Plugin : out of the box plugin for Middlegen. or find a way to make OR mapping less tedious. -
Maven support in NetBeans[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Trung Duc Tran
- Posted on: November 01 2004 11:50 EST
- in response to bad mASH
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Net Beans Rulz[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Travis Berthelot
- Posted on: November 01 2004 12:04 EST
- in response to bad mASH
I love NetBeans. I like Eclipse to for its massive support (plugins), but I find the NetBeans interface easier to use (Simplistic, Elegant, and Predicable).
The EMF hack with UML stuff is pretty cool in Eclipse. Maybe one day MDA will make its way into the NetBeans GUI. -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rashid Jilani
- Posted on: October 30 2004 18:18 EDT
- in response to Robert Demmer
Does any body know it support drag and Drop development for JSF? -
NetBeans 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mike Cornell
- Posted on: October 30 2004 20:26 EDT
- in response to Rashid Jilani
Does any body know it support drag and Drop development for JSF?
I doubt it, since Sun has pretty much put their eggs into Sun Studio Creator.
If it's going to support it, it'll be through a community based plugin.
Oracle JDeveloper supports JSF drag and drop, but I don't particularly care for how it manages projects. I expect JDeveloper's support of JSF to improve quicker than NetBeans does since Sun is trying to sell a tool for JSF support.