With Mercurial migration by the NetBeans project in the pipeline, I wanted to know if NetBeans 6.0 has support for Mercurial repositories. Good news, it does! Here’s how to install Mercurial support under NetBeans 6.0.

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NetBeans.org is migrating its code repository from CVS (cvs.netbeans.org) to Mercurial (hg.netbeans.org). This change will effect all community members who are integrating code changes to repository.

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While I was Googling to read about what other people have say about Android, I came across the blog of Simon Moris and his article about Android. He provides a very clear and simple explanation what Android is and goes on to ask “Is Android ‘Java’?”

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I’ve been looking around for support of PHP on the NetBeans IDE and up to now hasn’t found one. Maybe I’m not looking good enough or there is just isn’t any.

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Mobile Java or J2ME has been around for some time. It has it’s pros and cons but it is quite mature and secure as a mobile phone software development platform. The NetBeans guys have been doing quite a lot of great stuff in providing an IDE that’s “the only IDE you will ever need” (in my case this is still not true since I use Eclipse for creating PHP software).

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After a couple of beta releases and a couple of release candidates, NetBeans v6.0 is finally out. I have been eagerly awaiting for the release of this major version mainly because of the features that have been added that makes creating a java mobile software a lot easier. You’ll also find the mobile game designer feature a big boon towards creating mobile java games.

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Eversince I started the javamidlet.com web site, I have been looking for a java mobile software that I can use for testing checking and comparing the different J2ME capabilities of mobile phones. If you are a java mobile software developer, you may also want to check out the J2ME capabilities of different mobile phones that you intend to support. Here’s a software that you might find useful.

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Back from the holidays! In light of the need for me to be in the field during the upcoming weeks, I took the extra time to update my notebook so that I can use it for mobile development and to continue writing about the exciting things that are happening on the mobile space. I have been using my notebook as a dual boot system (Redhat Fedora and Windows 2000) and I thought it’s about time to update the Unix/Windows environment that I was using with new stuff.

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Release Candidate 2 for the NetBeans IDE version 6.0 is now available. NetBeans would like to encourage everyone to give their feedback about the upcoming NetBeans IDE v6.0! The final NetBeans IDE 6.0 release is planned for late 2007.

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The JavaFXâ„¢ Script Plugin for NetBeansâ„¢ IDE 6.0 has been released as open source! The source code is subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (”GPL”) and the Common Development and Distribution License(”CDDL”) terms.

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