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Tuesday Oct 23, 2007
Netbeans 6.0 Beta 2 - first Smoke Test
I just switched all my projects from Netbeans 6.0 Beta 1 to Beta 2. Some observations:
- The startup is faster. Instead of 40 seconds, it boots in 20 (with several Java EE projects and the UML plugin installed). With the -J-Xverify:none (thank you michael for the hint) setting in etc/netbeans.conf even in 15 seconds.
- The IDE feels a lot faster and more responsive in general.
- All projects, settings (e.g. application servers, subversion) etc. were loaded by Beta 2 without any problems. I just pointed Beta2 to the same directory as Beta 1. For this puspose the netbeans.conf has to be slighlty changed (the entry: "netbeans_default_userdir").
Posted at 11:30PM Oct 23, 2007 by Adam Bien in Java / JEE / Architecture | Kommentare[2]
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Unfortunately the Visual Web Module looks partly broken to me. Had downloaded the nightly build of 20071020 before - it was doing better than beta 2.
There seems a lot to be done, if they want to keep the Nov. 28 release date
Gesendet von Bernd Zimmermann am October 26, 2007 at 06:37 PM CEST #
Really?
I guess you mean the "Visual Web Pack".
I built with Beta2 several sample applications and imported some 5.5.1 / 6b1 projects as well. There was no difference - except it was faster.
Even during a Java EE 5 workshop most of the 18 developers switched from b1 to b2 - it ran on most machines faster and more stable. I'm using b2 now and I'm happy with it.
However - working with nightly builds is not a bad idea :-)
Gesendet von Adam Bien am October 27, 2007 at 12:48 PM CEST #