NetBeans 7.0 released

http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

by karussell • 15 years ago

68 44 15 years ago

udp4• 15 years ago

Those doing Android dev and stuck with Eclipse should also check out nbandroid: http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans

It's such a breath of fresh air having a responsive IDE... now all I need is a responsive phone ;-)

ridicule• 15 years ago

good tip

shareme• 15 years ago

responsive compared to what trash? Eclipse IDE has better performance on most OSes and the Adt plugin in fact keep sup with the google sdk releases unlike nbandroid plugins...which at times you are waiting 3 months for an update to match the current android sdk.

udp4• 15 years ago

I can't really argue with you because I'm only speaking from my own experience, but although with nbandroid I might wait 3 months for an update, with Eclipse I would wait 3 months for the code completion popup.

:-)

currywurst• 15 years ago

Funnily enough, I gave up on Netbeans 6.9 because it was soooo slow to react to input !

It is a really well-thought-out, user friendly IDE (much better usability curve than Eclipse imho), but I couldn't stand the constant scanning it does for some reason or the other, and slows the world down.

Have to check if there are improvements ..

mrj2• 15 years ago

You can turn of "Enable auto-scanning of sources" which makes it loads better.

But netbeans will still have to scan projects from time to time. I've had to keep just a small number active at any time to prevent it from scanning too much and slowing down.

Those two steps do help a lot though.

rb2k_• 15 years ago

Any news on the community driven Ruby plugin?

karussell2• 15 years ago

I tried this here: http://blog.enebo.com/2011/02/installing-ruby-support-in-net...

it installed and open my project but didn't work with the latest rails and project scanner crashes somewhen ...

mmmpie• 15 years ago

The ruby plugin is available on the netbeans plugin site, http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38549/ruby-and-rails , it has not been verified for 7.0 yet, but it does install. Once its verified I guess it will show up in the plugin manager.

evilduck• 15 years ago

The latest I've seen: http://netbeans.dzone.com/interview-tom-enebo-nb-1

hanifvirani• 15 years ago

Release Notes: http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/relnotes.html

phren0logy• 15 years ago

Can anyone who has been running the beta for a while comment about how NetBeans 7 stacks up to IntelliJ IDEA 10? I am trying both out, but I'm new to IDEs and some opinions from those with more experience would be helpful.

karussell2• 15 years ago

IntelliJ and NetBeans are both really good IDEs. I'm a NetBeans fan and I prefer having several projects open at a time. With intelliJ you can have only one project open.

And also as a maven guy I prefer NetBeans. E.g. download sources + javadocs is done with one click for dependencies of your project.

electrum2• 15 years ago

You can have multiple projects open in IntelliJ. When you open a second project, it prompts to open it in a "New Window" or "This Window". The confirm dialog has a "remember" option, which you can reset under Prefences -> General -> "Confirm window to open project in".

IntelliJ can also download Maven sources + javadocs automatically via Preferences -> Maven -> Importing -> "Automatically download". Otherwise, you can download manually by selecting the Maven Projects tab and clicking the download icon. Opening a Maven project with IntelliJ is really easy: just open the pom.xml and it will automatically create the IDE project.

electrum2• 15 years ago

I haven't used Netbeans, but IntelliJ is fantastic. The editor is fast and responsive, and features such as completion, inspections and refactoring work very well. Most of the professional Java developers I know use IntelliJ.

kedi_xed• 15 years ago

'...professional Java developers I know use IntelliJ' And how many do you know?

cubicle67• 15 years ago

Right at this moment I'm using NetBeans 7 and RubyMine (which is basically IntelliJ for Rails) simultaneously; RubyMine for Rails and NetBeans for PHP.

They're running on a 2 year old macbook upgraded to 5gb ram and a 7200rpm drive. Both are nice and snappy and more than good.

Legion3• 15 years ago

I can't stand Netbeans on Linux because of the awful Swing font rendering. Eclipse respects the font settings of my desktop environment. Netbeans looks terrible no matter what.

niclupien• 15 years ago

Netbean's text looks fine to me on my ubuntu box which i use every day at job.

Legion3• 15 years ago

I get that response sometimes, and it almost always turns out the person that thinks the text "looks fine" is not using AA, subpixel rendering, etc.

I snapped a picture of a GNOME menu overlayed on top of Netbeans, so Netbeans' complete failure to match the fonts of the GNOME desktop is made crystal clear: http://bit.ly/eSQy3d

mrj2• 15 years ago

Ha, glad it's not just me!

Though you can add this to the netbeans.conf to disable the AA fonts (makes it much, much more readable):

    -J-Dswing.aatext=false

mrinterweb• 15 years ago

Looks like they've dropped Ruby support. That is too bad. Netbeans was a pretty good IDE for ruby development. I wonder what motivated the decision to drop ruby.

abp• 15 years ago

http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport

Edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466938

evangineer• 15 years ago

No Python love either. There's a clear constraint on the amount of engineering resource that Oracle is putting into NetBeans. So they are targeting their resources for where they think it is most needed.

trungonnews• 15 years ago

What's wrong with IntelliJ?

adolfojp• 15 years ago

Who said that there was something wrong with IntelliJ?

rbanffy2• 15 years ago

Its newest version wasn't released today. Netbeans is also open-source.

beamso• 15 years ago

http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Home

'This is the home for the open-source project IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition − the leading Java and Groovy IDE built on the IntelliJ Platform.'

odiroot• 15 years ago

Where is my Python support?

markstahler• 15 years ago

I would pay for a nice Python plugin with Django/Jinja2 etc template support.

chillax• 15 years ago

PyCharm supports Django (1.3) at least. I see there is a ticket open for jinja support 2 though.

I've no experience with pycharm, but if it has some of the qualities of intellij (and to some extent rubymine) it should be usable.

techtalsky• 15 years ago

I use NetBeans 6.9 currently at my corporate job to edit PHP, and some of the enhancements have me excited. Notably:

- It uses native file listeners to detect filesystem updates. Awesome. I often use some other mechanism to create files and it's lame how slow NetBeans picks them up.

- Rename refactoring now works in PHP... I always wondered why it gave me the error that "rename refactoring won't work in this context". Now I know "this context" was PHP.

- HTML5! Cool.

NetBeans 7.0 released

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