New and Noteworthy

• GAE version 1.2.6 supported (14-Oct-2009)

We support the latest SDK version in our plugin now. You can install it in NB 6.7.1 and also in NB 6.8 dev.

• Profiler support (15-June-2009)

Michal added support for profiler recently. See the commit. You can profile your application in NetBeans profiler and find out bottlenecks in your Google Apps.

• App Engine templates (9-June-2009)

You can find out new templates for Google App Engine in New File wizard. We added templates for datastore and cron configuration. Also, code completion is supported for these files in editor.

• JPA support (2-June-2009)

We added support for JPA for App Engine projects recently in our plugin. However, we are still waiting for changes in NetBeans code that are tracked in issue. You will be able to use DataNucleaus as persistence provider, generate persistence.xml and also your entity classes will be enhanced by DataNucleus bytecode enhancer. See the screenshots

You can use reverse engineering for generation of entity classes from database.

• Google App Engine samples (27-May-2009)

NetBeans includes Guest Book sample application that might be your first step into Google App Engine world. Just create new project from Samples - Google App Engine category.

• Hints in editor (25-May-2009)

A Java App Engine application's access to the some classes in the Java standard library (the Java Runtime Environment, or JRE) is prohibited. You can see warning for not allowed classes in editor.