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NetBeans 4.0 Release

Posted by timothy on from the free-in-some-senses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Various news sources are reporting the 4.0 release of the free Java-based NetBeans IDE. You can read the anouncement, or proceed directly to the downloads. Perhaps the most significant improvement is that the IDE's native build system is the latest version of Apache Ant. I see this as a distinct advantage over its competitor Eclipse (and NetBeans is pure Java). If you create desktop applications in Java, you may wish to read up on the NetBeans 'platform' as well. Enjoy."

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  1. Shame... by finnw · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Re:Random netbeans story by batemanm · · Score: 3, Funny
    Not every problem can be solved with a short perl script

    Sometimes you have to chain several short perl scripts together :-)