NetBeans 6.1 RC2 Available : Let the IDE Do The Web Services Plumbing For You
posted Friday, 18 April 2008
If you missed it - NetBeans 6.1 Release Candidate 2 is out and available . Of course, there are the usual huge feature-set. You can read all about it here. One feature jumped out at me - the second to last entry on the page is "Support for Popular SaaS Services". This feature brings in support for web services from Google, Amazon, Facebook and other web services. The result is you can simply drag-and-drop operations under those services into a POJO, servlet, JSP and RESTful web service. The IDE will then build the plumbing code to access those services. You can see that if you use Amazon AWS or S3 things just got easier. For example, the drag and drop action of a specific AWS S3 service operation will create client code to call into that. All needed programatic pieces you need to authenticate and invoke them from java is auto generated for you including the needed java POJOs to manipulate the returned data. Check out the image at right - which shows access to Amazon S3 from with NetBeans 6.1 RC2. This is a wonderful game-changer for developers - the IDE basically is doing the underlying plumbing for you on key web services. You can download NetBeans 6.1 Release Candidate 2 here. There are plenty of new features and you might want to look at the above link to see what else is new. (Thanks Srividhya Narayanan )
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