Tag: java

Dru Devore has a blog entry on java.net showing how to use an ANT based build with Maven and Netbeans to use the jar repository feature with Netbeans 5.0. Devore mentions that there currently is not build in Maven integration for Netbeans, but there are other plugin projects out there, namely MevenIde.

The comments to the post are interesting, because there are multiple posts from other people suggesting to look at Ivy, a jar dependency manager. I haven’t come across this tools before, so will take a look when I get time. Their project page is at: jayasoft.org/ivy

The first beta release of Java SE 6.0 is available for download on the Sun site, here.

Here is a huge list of blogs from developers working on Java SE 6.0, discussing the latest features included in the SE 6.0 release.

There are some interesting new features, but a couple caught my eye:

• Ability to have wildcards in classpath statements – similar to how you can define directory wildcards in ANT for including jars in your classpath. This is very handy.
• Native Look and Feel improvements, so that Swing apps using XP and GTK Look and Feels are rendered even closer to what you would see on the native OS.
• Sorting and filtering in Swing JTable – very cool.

JUnit 4.0 has been released. It relies on Java SE 5.0, and uses annotations to mark tests.