Sun is doing quite a great move in improving the netbeans IDE by creating a lot of interesting add-on on it. There's the mobility pack, profiler, and now the
Sun Web Developer Pack which includes a lot of technologies that you can use to ease your web development in Java. They're as follows
- AJAX Technologies
- Scripting
- REST-based services
Perhaps the thing that really caught my attention is the scripting feature and this
screencast I've seen here using jMaki.
As I was looking into these devpack, I wondered was has really changed in the netbeans IDE.
This link would give you a lot of information about what's changed. And although I use eclipse for most of my projects, Netbeans is giving a lot to me now. This is good news for me since we're about to use netbeans for our next project.