It has come to my attention that NetBeans 6.5 final is now available.
It can be downloaded from the NetBeans web site.
If you would like to learn the ins and outs of enterprise Java development, my book, Java EE 5 Development with NetBeans 6, may help.
Posted by Eric Roth on December 01, 2008 at 04:13 PM EST #
Eric,
I was at a Sun conference call a few weeks ago in which this topic was covered.
According to Sun representatives, Woodstock 4.2 will still be supported by Sun for the foreseeable future.
Woodstock 4.3 is available for download, however it was never officially finished.
NetBeans comes with Woodstock 4.2 therefore you should be OK as far as support goes.
Hope that helps,
David
Posted by David R. Heffelfinger on December 01, 2008 at 06:49 PM EST #
Posted by Eric Roth on December 02, 2008 at 12:00 PM EST #
Eric,
I haven't deployed any projects using Woodstock to production, however it is possible that I will be doing that in the near future.
Soon I will start working on a project using Project WebSynergy. The NetBeans Portal Pack Plugin comes with a visual portlet builder, very similar to Visual Web JSF. Portlets built with this plugin use Woodstock components. We plan to use this plugin for this new project.
David
Posted by David R. Heffelfinger on December 02, 2008 at 04:56 PM EST #