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