# First Week With Netbeans 6.5M1 - Some Smoke - But Interesting Directions

The first week with Netbeans 6.5m1 worked really smoothly for me:The whole 6.1 configuration (databases, servers, project groups) was recognized and reused.Deployment of Java EE 5 to Glassfish v2 works well.Visual JSF Editor works as expected.The performance is comparable with 6.1 if not better - its hard to say.The new search (ctrg-i) is promising. It searches in types and in actions. The performance and usability should be improved, but then it will be really useful.Groovy is seamlessly integrated - I just did some basics examples - it worked so far.The usability (creation wizard of a new connection) of JDBC integration was improved - this is nice.PHP is integrated - no idea whether it is a feature or a shortcoming :-). Didn't tried it...Properties can be set for every (Java) project seperately.I used Netbeans 6.5m1 for 3 days without restarting the IDE and rebooting the OS. I have Vista - so you always have to plan the reboting procedure carefully. It is a significant investment :-). The memory consumption of Netbeans (not Vista :-)), was o.k (no significant increase).I didn't tried all features yet - but it looks promising. I encountered some exceptions during switching of projects back and forth. However it was an exception, without any substantial consequences.