Netbeans 6.7 came out earlier this month. I figured I’d give it a shot along with the IDM 8.1 plugin from http://identitymanageride.dev.java.net. Unfortunately, the plugin is not compatible with Netbeans 6.7. Attempting to install the plugin produces multiple errors and I was forced to disable it just to get Netbeans 6.7 to even start up. Officially, the 8.1 IDM plugin is only supported under Netbeans 6.1 but I’ve had it running under 6.5 without issue for some time now.
Hopefully, the Sun IDM team keeps up with the times and updates the plugin to support current versions of Netbeans. If you’re like me and you use Netbeans for other projects besides IDM then you’ll be forced to maintain two version of Netbeans if you want the new features from 6.7.
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The next version of the IDE will support NB 6.7.
As a matter of fact, the current development version (available through SVN) already contains the required changes and can be built against NB 6.7.
That’s fantastic news! Do you know if the 8.1 plugin remain backwards compatible with 7.1 for those of us still transitioning to 8.1?
Just reread my own comment. What I meant to say was: Support for 6.5.1 is included in current SVN, now. Support for 6.7.x and 6.8 is very likely to come in 9.0 but is not in SVN, yet, because of a NB bug which caused 6.7.1 and 6.8m1 to fail the unit tests.
About backward compatibility: The IDE will continue to be compatible with older versions of IDM. The much requested feature to detect the state of a configured app server (e. g. if it has been started by some means outside NB) will make it much less likely for a plugin built against NB 6.5.1 to work with 6.8 without change, though.
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