Tuesday, June 21, 2011

NetBeans 7 - Deletes my files!

When I saw that NetBeans 7 was ready for download, I anxiously upgraded. At first it's new features appeared to be great until I suddenly realized that files on my server were being deleted...

Problem:
NetBeans would go to download my web site from the server to the local hard drive. After this process was complete, I found several files on my server had disappeared. I restored them via subversion (thank goodness, I am using versioning). I ran this test several more times to see if I could find correlations to what was deleted, however the problem seemed to select files at random.

Solution:

Returned to NetBeans 6.9.1 for now. I sure hope they fix these issues soon. I have really enjoyed the new features:

  • Introduction of JDK 7 support including editor enhancements (syntax, hints)
  • Revamped support for WebLogic Application Server and GlassFish 3.1
  • Oracle Database improvements
  • HTML5 editing support
  • Maven 3 is supported and bundled with the IDE
  • Improved support for CDI, REST services, Java Persistence, and Bean Validation
  • PHP Rename Refactoring
  • Line wrapping
  • Improved detection of external changes (native file system listening)
  • Updates to the C/C++ support (remote file system browsing, library projects running/debugging, enhanced templates/specializations)
  • Support for Git 1.7.х
  • Additional enhancements are listed at the NetBeans IDE 7.0 New and Noteworthy page
Featured from: netbeans.org

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