Blogging Roller: We want you to blog about Netbeans 6.1 beta

We want you to blog about Netbeans 6.1 beta

<img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/resource/blognetbeans61.png" align="right" hspace="10px" alt="netbeans logo" /> It's not a new runtime or a component model or some bastardized chunk of code yanked from the guts of the wombeast, it's just Netbeans 6.1 beta, the latest revision of a good solid and Jolt award winning IDE.

So I'm here telling you to download it, install it, try it out and blog about it because the Netbeans team really wants and, in fact, needs your feedback. Plus, you could even win some money.

I can't win since I'm a Sun employee, but I downloaded 6.1-beta today and started using it for development. I put it through its paces with some heavy refactoring work without single crash, a stack-trace or any of the usual things a beta brings. Of course, YMMV. I did see a weird-ass anomaly in the Mac OS X activity monitor.

Dave Johnson in General • 🕒 06:03PM Mar 18, 2008

Comments:

Since installing Netbeans 6.1 I've found in so unstable I've been forces to go back to 6.0.1. It's so frustrating since some of the features that I was waiting for and performance improvements have been totally negated by the lack of usability of this version. Hopefully the next version will be more stable and out soon. Until then I wont be using 6.1

Posted by Bob Jones on June 19, 2008 at 05:22 PM EDT #

The two big problems I've been having with netbeans 6.1 are huge performance problems when editing javascript files. My machine locs up whenever I press the dot character after an object and there's no way to regain control (escape out of the auto-suggest). I also have had very sporadic crashes while editing JSP files. In addition, the JSP auto-indent doesn't seen to indent properly.

Posted by Kevin Curley on July 07, 2008 at 06:59 PM EDT #