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| <h1>NetBeans <sup>TM</sup> 4.1 Early Access Release Now Available</h1> |
| <div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">Posted to nbannounce, 22nd October, 2004</div> |
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| <p>The NetBeans<sup>TM</sup> open source project is proud to announce the early access |
| release of the NetBeans IDE 4.1 as the project delivers significant new |
| development capabilities for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| 1.4 (J2EE<sup>TM</sup>) including Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components and Web Services. |
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| <p>For downloads of this release go to: |
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| <blockquote><a href="https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html">https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html</a></blockquote> |
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| <p>For the quick start guide, see: |
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| <blockquote><a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/archive/index.html">https://netbeans.org/kb/archive/index.html</a></blockquote> |
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| <p>This early access release has over 15 new modules for developing J2EE |
| 1.4 applications and is built on the novel and breakthrough NetBeans 4.0 |
| technology. Users can develop programs for Java 2 Platform, Standard |
| Edition (J2SE<sup>TM</sup>), Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME<sup>TM</sup>), and now J2EE EJBs |
| and Web Services. Using the free Sun<sup>TM</sup> Java System Application Server |
| Platform Edition 8.1 beta as the deployment runtime and with NetBeans |
| guiding the developer and automatically building the underlying J2EE |
| infrastructure, learning about and developing J2EE 1.4 applications has |
| never been easier. To further assist the developer, there are numerous |
| samples of J2EE applications easily accessible from within the IDE, as |
| well contributions from the J2EE Java BluePrints catalog. |
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| <p>With a pure Java technology integrated development environment and |
| cross platform availability for Windows, Linux and the Solaris<sup>TM</sup> |
| Operating System, this is the best time to get a look at the future. |
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| <p>The next early access release is planned for January 2005. |
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| <p><h2>Key Features</h2> |
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| <p><b>Create an EJB Module and EJB Session Beans</b> |
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| <li>The NetBeans IDE guides the user through the process to easily learn |
| how to write an EJB as well as deploy, package and test applications |
| <li>A GUI is available to select an EJB and perform the required tasks |
| such as adding business methods and editing deployment descriptors |
| <li>All EJB infrastructure methods are generated automatically and are |
| hidden in a power code fold |
| <li>The resulting EJB module can easily be added to a J2EE application |
| <li>The NetBeans project structure matches J2EE Java BluePrints |
| standards and relies on the Ant open standard for the build system |
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| <p><b>Calling EJBs</b> |
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| <li>It's easy for the developer to create a servlet and call an EJB from |
| this servlet code |
| <li> The Web Application can then be added to a J2EE Application that |
| will also have the corresponding EJB Module and this J2EE Application is |
| then deployed to the application server |
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| <p><b>Develop Web Services</b> |
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| <li>Developers can create and modify Web Services and deploy, package |
| and test them from the IDE |
| <li>Developers can register existing Web Services to the IDE, and then |
| easily add the code that will call these Web Services |
| <li>Developers can test all the registered Web Services from the IDE by |
| simply entering the input parameters of each operation |
| <li>The NetBeans IDE guides the user through the process to easily |
| learn how to write EJB and J2EE Applications to select a web service and |
| perform required tasks |
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