In the NetBeans Platform (i.e., not the tool NetBeans IDE,
but the Swing framework beneath it [and many
others]), 6.9 brings many enhancements. These, in my opinion,
are the most important:NetBeans Platform as a Product. As announced by Jim
Parkinson, Sun exec at the time, the post 6.8 scene, in terms of
the NetBeans project, is markedly different from before, where
there really only was one official project, that is, the IDE. That
heralds a totally new vision to the pre-6.9...