What is new in Visual Web in NetBeans 6.0

Overview

• Upgrade path for Creator 2 customers
• Opensource
• Integration with NetBeans
  • Web Projects
  • Page Flow Editor
  • SQL Query Editor
  • CSS Editor
• Retouche
• Performance improvements
• Installer integration
• Latest Woodstock Components

Details

• Visual Web framework with NetBeans Web project provides and upgrade path for Creator 2 customers
  • Visual Design
  • EJB
  • Web Services
  • Automatic import of Creator 2 projects
  • Portlet projects not supported

• Opensource work completed

• No more separate project type. Visual Web integrates with NetBeans Web project through the framework mechanism. No more "pack" business. Slowly trying to share third party libraries with NetBeans web project.

• Page Flow Editor for editing the navigation rules in faces-config.xml files from Web Projects with JSF (Visual Web or non Visual Web). Implemented using Graph library.

• SQL Query Editor can be invoked from NetBeans. Implemented using Graph library.

• CSS editor available for all .css files

• Uses Retouche APIs for source modeling and java refactoring implementation

• Uses new Refactoring APIs to implement refactoring as well as shares some refactoring elements with NetBeans Web Project

• Performance Improvements
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Improved page open performance for projects with large number of projects
  • Designer performance improvements

• Installer is same as NetBeans

• Misc.
  • Outline moved to Navigator
  • Services Tab - Databases, Web Services, EJBs
  • Table component design time enhancements for generic type properties (including JPA classes)
  • Ability to add help sets, create i18n-ed palette categories to component libraries for Visual Web.
  • Unified Options window