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NetBeans 6.1 was just released and it is both a feature and a performance release. The feature part has to do with JavaScript support - the language everybody loves to hate (See Roberto's talk at JavaOne), MySQL improved support, Spring Framework support, Hibernate support, Axis 2, Sailfin support, and Jersey (RESTful Web Services) support. |
It's also bringing back features lost in the translation from 5.5. to 6.0 such as JavaBeans support and the JSF CRUD Generator. NetBeans also now provides a more natural way to share libraries. All in all a lot of web and server-side features including support for the latest GlassFish v2ur2 release. The full list of features is here.
Performance is related to startup-time, completion speed, and memory consumption. Coming attractions include PHP support, JavaScript debugger, Groovy/Grails support, and more.
As always, the nice download matrix is available here. Congratulations to the team for yet another solid release!
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Another good writeup from Scott (time trip: [1], [2], [3, [4]) this time on using NIO vs IO, partly as followup to JD Campbell's Top Java 5 EE Servers Compared. Scott compares simple and complex cases: in a simple request/response case the overhead of the select() call implied by NIO is noticeable, but in the more complex case where you need to scale, NIO is the clear winner. |
Check out Scott's note and you may also enjoy browsing other entries in his blog.