netbeans 6.9 Release Candidate

The latest netbeans release candidate is available here.

Its looking pretty good lots of added features and improvements.

JS Speed tip

This looks like an interesting technique, especialy as you could use it to include js conditionally.

Netbeans 6.8 Released

Its arrived, its fixed, its fast, its good, get it here, only had one problem Glassfish v3 wouldn't run because of a port conflict, that was my problem, everything else just works fine.

Best netbeans version yet.....

Please can we have Apache Geronimo support too

netbeans 6.8 RC2

I have been using netbeans 6.8 RC2 for a couple of days for web development  doing my day job and it is looking good. (Java5 SE web, DWR and ExtJS)

Starts up much faster and is seems generally much more responsive all round.

The only problem encountered so far is that the editor windows do not maximize/restore which is already in the netbeans bug list, other than that I reckon it is ready to ship.

Netbeans 6.8 RC's

netbeans 6.8 RC2 is out and much improved in terms of performance over 6.8 beta and 6.7.1.

I am using RC2 for my web app development, its early days but looking really good this time. Will post more when I have had time to use it more this week.

Still no Apache Geronimo support though, shame.

RC1 wasnt much use to me, I tried it on a couple of different machines and could not get web apps to deploy due to missing dependancy issues out of the box, this is fixed in RC2.

Checking Javascript Files With JSLINT in Netbeans

Enough about minifying JavaScript, what about checking JS files with JSLint too.

Try this in NetBeans:-

Download the latest lib from http://code.google.com/p/jslint4java/ and put in your ant/lib directory or on the class path. I put it in the netbeans project folder in the example.

Override the pre-compile ant target in your netbeans build.xml so that it looks something like the following example, substituting the class path and includes as appropriate:-

When you build your web application the chosen JavaScript files will be run through the JSLint ant task and checked for errors, the build will fail if any problems are found.

This has saved me hours of debugging JavaScript especially when using cross browser JS libs such as EXTJs.

I have come across a brilliant idea for compressing and minifying CSS and Javascript.

Just check this out and forget my previous ramblings on the subject and enjoy :)