Results from NetBeans 6.5 Community Acceptance survey
Overall Quality comments
I don't have a "showstopper" bug here. But the little things that add up to the overall quality are a problem. I just starting trying RC2 the other day. The project properties dialog has some serious sizing issues. The drop down to change the platform takes my entire 1680 pixel screen. I also can't make this dialog smaller, as it keeps resizing itself bigger. It is annoying and it really makes netbeans look half-baked.
I haven't had an opportunity to try but AFAIK the remaining critical usability bugs in JAX-RPC support were finally fixed in 6.5. I've stopped using Visual Web so can't comment on that anymore. I'm now using facelets + jsf 1.2 in Maven2 project.
I like new multi thread debug feature. It can be improved, I know, but its introduction made all my work easier.
Definitely, it looks better and hope to see a close-to-having-no-bugs some day..
I would of liked to feel that the quality is improving. But it doesn't feel that way.
It seems to work with nimbus - 6.1 didn't render text in some widgets.
For my context (Pure Java and Netbeans Platform Development) it is basically the same. I do not use the PHP or other language support.
My initial build testing of 6.1 projects did not succeed. Will evaluate further.
NB 6.1 was already good on overall quality
Please see my response to #4 (performance). These two are tied together for me.
I have one recurring bug (see below in comments). I had one other problem that I had also experienced in the Beta. At one point, the my computer slowed dramatically; there was lots of disk usages. At the same time, the heap size withing NetBeans 6.5 started growing dramatically (normally it's about 100/120, but it kept growing rapidly. I finally quit after it got to 380/440.
Sorry, but this bug is really unnerving me for quite a while and i was hoping it would go away in Netbeans 6.5. Otherwise the quality is great, but 6.1 was an almost flawless release.
Quality is pretty bad overall, just too many null exceptions everywhere. Also the GlasFish v3 service is just to buggy to use.
In terms of quality nb6.5 is of course superior than 6.1. Lots of new cool breakthrough features has been injected and applied to the IDE.
The new code hinting in JavaScript bring an already familiar and awesome feature set to those of us you code from server back-end to client. THANK YOU!
I can't really tell the difference in the ruby development. The new test runner is nicer, but some thought needs to be put into how it fits inside a programming flow. I couldn't use it without reverting to the mouse. That is really annoying.
6.5 absolutely is better than 6.1 in terms of Overall Quality!
I have been using 6.1 for development every day since it was released. I have found a steady improvement in both performance and stability in nightly builds since mid-September. I have for the most part switched to 6.5 RC1 for all development since it was released. The stability and performance is better than for 6.1.
Better Ruby and Rails support, but still lack of HAML support. Unfortunately still lack of GIT support.
See also Why Is The Debugger So Incredibly Slow?
NPEs have been a real problem in NetBeans 6.5 and many of the supported plug-ins. FindBugs, design patterns that eliminate the changes of NPEs, more diligent null-pointer checks and test cases should emphasized during future development.
Some same bugs.
6.1 is light years behind in this department. Look like 2 different products.
Not really a showstopper, but it is confusing to see two identical icons that do different things when you click them.
I have noticed some improvements on the JPA entity generation functionality. The new ability to add attributes to recreate the tables is very nice. I also like the fact that JSF applications generated from JPA entities now are more visually appealing than before.
I mainly use Netbeans for cnd, and the project appears to have improved greatly since 6.1
I like the SQL editor now. Spring support is a little slow but very usable. Maven support got better.
The issue I have mentioned is not really a showstopper in itself, but I'm still getting too many random exceptions while editing java files
maven,matisse have good improvments. It's mostly what i use.
handy compile and save; fewer display bugs on linux
The overall quality of the new release is excellent, the great number of new features and enhancements is brilliant.
6.5 rc1 seems to be very stable and faster than 6.1.
Both are Quite Stable
I can't say on any quantitative level that yes it is better overall, but it feels better, and I'm looking forward to dig into the java (and scala) features in 6.5
The core features are better, but new features introduce some new defects. 6.5.1 coming out soon?
For me as java developer it's an minor release change. It could be named 6.2
Both contain small bugs, but I'm used to it. I don't consider NB a particularly stable program, I think you should consider longer release cycles.
Their may be bugs in 6.5 but as time goes by these bugs will be fixed and will gain more value to its quality.
For me, 6.1 quality was quite bad (including one showstopper bug). I'm pleased to see that the quality of 6.5 is much better.
Updated: $Date: 2009/10/29 16:51:07 $ GMT
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