NetBeans IDE 5.5 Beta Now Available

Netbeans 5.5是第一个完全支持JavaEE 5 的IDE.而且增强了 Java Persistence,EJB 3and JAX-WS 2.0 规格说明.
在下载netbeans5.5后,任何有关JavaEE 5的特性都可以正常使用.其中包括EJB3.0,WEB层开发和web services.
(一直喜欢netbeans胜过eclipse就是因为这个原因,我比较懒,呵呵!)
http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html

很明显,sun确实对netbeans加大了投入,netbeans5.5增强了功能,具体的我就不说了,大家浏览上面网址就知道了.

另外,netbenas.org提供了提供了5.5的企业级开发包,移动版开发包,和Netbeans Profiler,以及对C++/C的支持包.
简单介绍一下企业开发包.Enterprise Pack,在安装Enterprise Pack5.5之后,你可以进行以下开发:
SOA visual design tools for architects and programmers
UML Modeling
Identity Management
Java EE 5 SDK
大家可以参照访问以下网址获得更多信息,
http://www.netbeans.org/products/enterprise/index.html

以上内容都可以
从netbeans.org上免费下载
得到.写得比较乱,凑合着看吧.

Netbeans 5.5 Feature Highlights(From Netbeans.org)

The NetBeans 5.5 Beta release contains many features that maximize your productivity and flexibility with building robust, standards-compliant Java™ applications:

• General Java Enterprise Edition™ 5 platform support:
  • Deploys to the Sun Java System Application Server PE 9 (Glassfish).
  • Provides code completion and Javadoc for Java EE 5 APIs and deployment descriptors.
  • Web tier technologies updated for Java EE 5 platform: Servlet 2.5, JavaServer™ Pages 2.1, JavaServer™ Faces 1.2
  
  
• Java Persistence support:
  • Generates Java entity classes from existing DB schemas.
  • Creates entity classes in the IDE and lets the server generate the DB relying on the DB-from-Java feature in Glassfish
  • The persistence runtime can be used in web apps and plain Java apps without the need of a full-blown Java EE application server.
  • Wizards for creating complete web application for manipulating data in the database using Java Persistence.
  • Enhanced Java source editor for code completion and hints.
  • High level user actions that generate common code patterns (e.g. using an Entity Manager).
  
  
• Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) Support (aka Web Service 2.0)
  • Generates JAX-WS 2.0 artifacts for SE 6 and EE 5 projects
  • Configuration is done through bindings customization (like asynchronous calls, package info)
  • Simplified and updated template wizards.
  • High-level user actions that generate common code patterns (e.g. calling a web service).
  
  
• Support for Enterprise Java Beans 3 session beans
  • Simplified development of session beans and message driven beans.
  • Enhanced Java source editor with code completion, error checking, and hints specifically targeting EJB 3.
  
  
• Other improvements:
  • Code completion for the JavaServer™ Pages Expression Language.
  • Support for Java EE Application Clients.
  • Support for configuring security in Java EE applications.
  • Support for running SQL scripts directly from the IDE.

Enterprise Pack Feature Highlights

• SOA visual design tools for architects and programmers
  • XML Schema Tools - Create, visualize and edit XML schema. Visualize the relationships between schema elements. Use queries find usages and find unused global components. Schema creation wizards. Watch the XML Schema Tools video.
  • BPEL Designer, visual editor for BPEL and WSDL - Author, build, deploy, and test BPEL processes. Includes a full two-way editor; BPEL runtime engine integrated with Sun Java System Application Server 9; creation of loosely coupled, service-based composite applications for SOA; full two-way round-trip designer; full process debugging integrated into NetBeans debugger.

• UML Modeling, including:
  • Full two-way, round-trip engineering
  • Markerless code
  • Language-independent, abstract modeling
  • Support for 8 diagram types and advanced layout algorithms
  • Requirements gathering

• Identity Management features, including:
  • Interoperable secure web services development via the use of WSI-BSP token profiles
  • Federated web services development conforming to Liberty Specifications
  • All  the required runtime infrastructure, which includes Access Manager and providers based on JSR-196 specifications, and Sun Application Server, are installed and fully configured as part of the NetBeans Enterprise Pack installation.

• Java EE 5 SDK
  • Enhances and extends Java EE 5 development support now available in the NetBeans 5.5 IDE.