[ANN] Forte for Java 3.0 Early Access available for free download

[Petr Jiricka <pe...@czech.sun.com>]

An Early Access release of Sun Forte for Java IDE, version 3.0 is available
for free download at http://eap.netbeans.com/.

Forte for Java 3.0 will be available in two editions:

The Community Edition is free of charge and offers many improvements over
Forte for Java Community Edition 2.0: Support for servlet creation,
execution and debugging, JSP debugging at the source level, monitoring HTTP
requests and responses, development of custom tag libraries, visual editor
of deployment descriptors, WAR packager, support for multiple servers and
ready to use tag libraries. There are also many other areas of improvement,
such as database support, XML support, and support for RMI, CORBA and JNDI.

The for-sale Enterprise Edition supports creation and deployment of
Enterprise JavaBeans, assembling J2EE .ear files, integration with the
iPlanet Application Server and creation of Web Services.

The Early Access release of both the Community Edition and the Entrprise
Edition is free of charge.

Petr Jiricka
software engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.