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Experimental Java Hints in NetBeans

October 19th, 2009 by

Users of NetBeans can now install the developer’s Experimental Java Hints in the plugin menu. These are hints that will highlight regions of code with a suggested change. Among others, the package for Netbeans 6.7 will enable hints to:-

  • Better support for static imports issue 89258
  • Auto-generate serialVersionUID data member and value issue 70746

For Netbeans 6.7, simply add

http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/release67-contrib/lastStableBuild/artifact/updates.xml

to the Plugins list and do a refresh to see it in the list. After the installation/restart, you can enable the hints you find interesting using the Preferences -> Hints -> Java -> Experimental menu.

A special thanks to Jesse Glick for setting up both the release67 branch of the contrib repository and the hudson builder. Hopefully we’ll see something similar when 6.8 is released.

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