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After having used NetBeans 6.7 Milestones for a while, I was very happy when the beta was released yesterday. I immediately installed it and started trying it out. The milestones had a tendency to use a LOT of cpu, but so far I have not experienced this with the beta. Maybe since I was stuck up in meetings yesterday and did not have time to code. Today will be better

Some Highlights

• Connected Developer (Kenai)

  Create Kenai-hosted projects from within the NetBeans IDE
  Locate and open sources for Kenai-hosted projects in the IDE
  Full integration with Bugzilla

• Maven

  Support for Web Services creation and consumption and J2EE
  POM Editor and Navigator enhancements

• PHP

  Code coverage and Selenium support
  PHPUnit output improvements

• C/C++

  Support of popular Qt library and tools

• Groovy and Grails

  Out-of-the-box support for Grails 1.1

• Profiler

  Enhanced Self Diagnosis (“Profile Me Now!”)

• Java ME / Mobility

  Full support for SVG Rich Components in the Visual Mobile Designer

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Kenai is Sun’s connected developer destination. It is a integrated suite of developer services where you can host your open source projects. Currently the following features are supported:

• Source Code Management (Subversion, Mercurial, and Git)
• Issue Tracking (Jira and Bugzilla)
• Wiki
• Forums
• Mailing Lists
• Download facility for documents
• Evolving integration with NetBeans

When you create an account at Kenai, you can host up to five projects for free. I imported two of my hobby projects to try it out, and I liked it. See wikipedia for a comparison of open source software hosting facilities.

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This week, it became clear that Oracle buys Sun. Personally, I think this is much better deal than if the IBM-deal had gone through. Just by looking at the corporate culture, it must be a hell of a lot easier to merge Oracle and Sun than trying to squeeze the laid-back-California-minds of Sun into the business suits of The Big Blue.

Oracle has a great history of software acquisitions and Java is so important for Oracle that it is probably in the best of hands.

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