The Netbeans community has released Netbeans 5.0.
The major addition in this release is the adition of the ‘Matisse’ GUI builder, which makes designing Java Swing GUI layouts incredibly easy. Check out this online demo, showing how easy it is to build a Swing GUI, without having to mess around with Layout Managers.
Support has also been added to develop and deploy J2EE apps to Weblogic 9 and JBoss 4.