Two Amazing NetBeans 6.8Beta Features

1. NetBeans 6.8Beta generates Unit-Tests for EJB 3.1 with Embeddable Container code. It looks like:

    @Test

    public void testHello() throws Exception {

        System.out.println("hello");

        HelloService instance = (HelloService)javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer.createEJBContainer().getContext().lookup("java:global/classes/HelloService");

        String expResult = "";

        String result = instance.hello();

        assertEquals(expResult, result);

        // TODO review the generated test code and remove the default call to fail.

        fail("The test case is a prototype.");

    }

This is a nice feature: you don't have to look-up the JNDI-name...

2. NetBeans is capable to auto-complete a bound item in the data table:

                <h:dataTable id="hugo" value="#{newTweet.messages}" var="message">

                    <h:column>

                        <h:outputText value="#{message.content}"/>  //the auto-completion works here!

                    </h:column>

                </h:dataTable>

I tested NetBeans 6.8Beta in the last few days. It is stable, fast and especially interesting for Java EE 6 projects... Especially EJB 3.1 / JPA 2.0 support and JSF 2.0 editor were improved significantly....