Things I particularly like on NB 6.9 - Inspection of objects and expression in debugging by hovering over a variable of selection. A tooltip will appear showing the current value and you can expand for a closer look. No need to look to the "Variables" tab any more. You need a quite steady hand to expand though - the tooltip closes quickly. :-) - Deploy EJB's by means of OSGI bundles. The session beans are registered automatically as OSGI services. Very neat ! I'm referring to Sahoo's blog ( http://www.java.net/blog/111589) for this kind of deployment. He has a wiki about it somewhere too but unfortunately I lost the url. - The lookup of types (ctrl-o) and files (shift-alt-o) is much faster. For big projects with many libraries this is really a nice improvement. - The new java hints are certainly nice but in my opinion nothing beats Findbugs indeed. It does the checks mentioned in the cast and quite some others. The SQE project provides a plugin for Findbugs, PMD, Checkstyle en dependency check. It's a bit performance-hungry though...
The one thing I'd like to see improved - Project scanning ! Tor mentioned this can be disabled. But really... why it is scanning the very same Maven libraries each time I'm starting up ? NB takes a kickass start and stamps right away onto the breaks as soon as it is scanning the tenths of Maven libraries my projects have. I thought Maven libraries are by their nature immutable. They're cast in stone once they get a final version. So why am I seeing each morning the same lengthy procession of scans ? Usually when I'm - trying - to show off Netbeans to my colleagues. :-) On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 21:18, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember a few years back the Posse were getting a lot of flak for > being a "tool/ide fanboy podcast" focusing too much on tooling stuff. > Seems the guys can't win no matter what content they produce :) > > All I have to say is I have a fast forward button on iTunes and the > iPod and can skip the stuff that bores me. > > Mark > > -- > Pull me down under... > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > But the technical viewpoint and the tooling is also important and it > > was missing lately - especially the Java focus. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
