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More Netbeans 5.5 preview follies

« H E Personal :: Technology :: email
posted Wednesday, 8 March 2006
I've been spending some decent time in the Netbeans 5.5 preview lately because I'm trying to make sure I really understand Java, Enterprise Edition 5 (as well as checking out the tools.) So far, I can see Netbeans 5.5 being an excellent competitor to the other big dogs in the IDE space, IDEA and Eclipse, once it gets out of the preview stage and clears out some of the bugs. (In all honesty, someone also said that JDeveloper was excellent for JEE 5, but I haven't had time to really get into it, sadly. Only twenty-four hours in the day, you know the drill.)

Along the way, I've noted a few wacky things with it. The current things that I'm working against:

  1. No update centers. This is a minor quibble, but it'd be nice - plus, it'd be smart for the Netbeans group, since they measure Netbeans usage based on update center refreshes.
  2. Reinstallation doesn't work. Period. I uninstalled it, because I unwisely thought I'd check out a more recent build than the preview, only to have the more recent build blow chunkage; when I try to reinstall the preview, it either magically fails (I apparently cancel the installation without touching the keyboard or mouse) or only installs the jars and configurations as opposed to, like, the invocation commands. This is a problem, for some reason. I guess I could build from scratch, but... ick.
  3. The resource annotation error I mentioned (in "Darts and Arrows with Netbeans 5.5") returned. This is why I uninstalled in the first place. I originally thought that it was a freaky and wrong @ManyToMany configuration I was using, so I created an enterprise app that had only a session bean that served as a Timer, mostly to figure out the deployment characteristics of the Timer in Glassfish. However, this ended up giving me the same kind of resource annotation error I got with JPA.

    This is a problem.

I'll let you know as soon as I make progress. Boy, working with preview reference implementations is fun. :)

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comments (4)


1. Balazs Fejes left...
Wednesday, 8 March 2006 9:04 am :: http://fb2.hu/x10

I've also started to build stuff using Netbeans 5.5, but unfortunately they do not make a Mac preview package available, so I've switched to JDeveloper. I had to reconfigure it to use the JBoss ejb3-persistence package as the Oracle provided EJB annotations are not up to date, otherwise it does the job and it deploys to JBoss out of the box.


2. Lance Dunbar left...
Thursday, 9 March 2006 1:44 pm

Maybe they heard your voice, because I just downloaded a Mac version of the preview package from NetBeans.org dwonload site.


3. Joseph Ottinger left...
Thursday, 9 March 2006 1:55 pm

BTW, I figured out what I'd done wrong: you can't run Glassfish with Java 6, as it turns out. :)


4. Charles Beckham left...
Thursday, 9 March 2006 6:13 pm

Yes...Yes...we heard you...there is a Mac OS version of the NetBeans 5.5 Preview now available. It was actually delayed so we could test it on Mac Intel also. Not quite enough of the Mac Intel machines around yet...you can go to http://www.netbeans.org and go to the download page to get it.

Cheers Charles Beckham