Tim Boudreau is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been working on the NetBeans project for nine years and is co-author of "NetBeans: The Definitive Guide" from O'Reilly and Associates, and "Rich Client Programming" from Addison Wesley.
Java developers have had
a nice ride the last few
years. With ferocious
competition in the Java
tools space, the tools
they use have been
getting better and
better. Where one tool
innovates, such as with
quick fixes, the
competitors quickly
duplicate and expand on...
NetBeans 6.0 brings a
host of new features to
Java and Ruby developers,
including a totally
rewritten editor, support
for local file history, a
new graphical file
comparison utility, and
support for the new Swing
desktop framework. One
area of particular
emphasis ...