NetBeans 6.5 is now available for download at netbeans.org. I have been using the beta and release candidates for some time now, so there should not be too many surprises. The feature I am happiest about right now is that it is possible to configure projects independently. This enables me to push out code conventions in the root pom.xml file for the entire project. Hence there is no excuse for not following the conventions 
Netbeans 6.0 has been made available for download. It is a significant upgrade from 5.5, so it is absolutely worth while upgrading. Check the Netbeans site for more information.
Netbeans IDE 6.0 Milestone 10 is available. For more info about the additions, read more here. I really enjoyed the M9, but it had som flaws. I am really looking forward to seeing if these have been fixed in M10!
For the fifth time, the NetBeans Software Day was held as a soft start to JavaOne. In the opening keynote, Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green got a question about how they wanted to address the competition from Eclipse. They answered that without Eclipse, NetBeans would not be were it is today, and vice versa. Competition is good and no developer would ever say “I only need one tool….”.
I also attended a presentation of Swing Application Framework, Beans Binding and some other cool stuff upcoming in NetBeans 6.0. If you have not tried out NetBeans yet…try it out!
