I have been playing around with apache NetBeans-IDE version 11.2-beta3. The experience is quite positive.
As a long time user I can appreciate the new features as well as some newly discovered features. I am doing all my development using linux (Ubuntu 18.04). What I liked is: - Proper and complete integration of apache maven, in particular the way the output of the maven jacoco coverage plugin is presented. It is now available as a main window. For more details you can always open the target/site/jacoco folder which presents maven resports. - You can rerun separate test methods from the test results window, which is really nice if you are into Test Driven Development as I am. [image: Screenshot 2019-10-21 16:11:03.png] [image: Screenshot from 2019-10-21 13-14-48.png] Running NetBeans on top of java 11 (open jdk) produced some not so good looking fonts. Adding JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp" to my environment undid this minor issue. first picture is before: [image: Screenshot 2019-10-21 16:15:28.png] picture after: [image: Screenshot 2019-10-21 16:19:09.png] During my experiments, I found a few minor problems but I had a quick response on them in all cases. So I am quite happy with this newest development. -- Pieter Van den Hombergh. No software documentation is complete with out it's source code.
