http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html
he NetBeans 5.5 Beta release contains many features that maximize your productivity and flexibility with building robust, standards-compliant Java™ applications:
* General Java Enterprise Edition™ 5 platform support:
o Deploys to the Sun Java System Application Server PE 9 (Glassfish).
o Provides code completion and Javadoc for Java EE 5 APIs and deployment descriptors.
o Web tier technologies updated for Java EE 5 platform: Servlet 2.5, JavaServer™ Pages 2.1, JavaServer™ Faces 1.2
* Java Persistence support:
o Generates Java entity classes from existing DB schemas.
o Creates entity classes in the IDE and lets the server generate the DB relying on the DB-from-Java feature in Glassfish
o The persistence runtime can be used in web apps and plain Java apps without the need of a full-blown Java EE application server.
o Wizards for creating complete web application for manipulating data in the database using Java Persistence.
o Enhanced Java source editor for code completion and hints.
o High level user actions that generate common code patterns (e.g. using an Entity Manager).
* Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) Support (aka Web Service 2.0)
o Generates JAX-WS 2.0 artifacts for SE 6 and EE 5 projects
o Configuration is done through bindings customization (like asynchronous calls, package info)
o Simplified and updated template wizards.
o High-level user actions that generate common code patterns (e.g. calling a web service).
* Support for Enterprise Java Beans 3 session beans
o Simplified development of session beans and message driven beans.
o Enhanced Java source editor with code completion, error checking, and hints specifically targeting EJB 3.
* Other improvements:
o Code completion for the JavaServer™ Pages Expression Language.
o Support for Java EE Application Clients.
o Support for configuring security in Java EE applications.
o Support for running SQL scripts directly from the IDE.
e compatibilidade com o Java 6.0.
