Develop J2EE and mobile apps with NetBeans

BANGALORE: Sun Microsystems announced release 4.0 of the NetBeans project. This release will have the capability to develop full Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications, including support for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology and Web services, as well as mobile development support. Other release 4.0 highlights include a new Java technology performance profiler based on patent-pending technology originally developed at Sun Labs and refactoring capabilities based on Dr. James Gosling's Jackpot project.

Sun has contributed approximately 350,000 lines of code valued at $14 million from its commercial Sun Java Studio Standard IDE to the NetBeans open source project for these features. A beta version of this release will be available by the end of July.