September 17, 2007. NetBeans.org announced that NetBeans IDE 6.0 includes popular StrikeIron Web Services.
The five prepackaged StrikeIron web services are: DNS, US Address Verification, Email Verification, ReversePhoneLookup and TaxDataComplete. Each service is made available from within the StrikeIron Node within the Services Module. Furthermore, the new IDE enables users to search for and integrate StrikeIron Web Services directly from within the IDE.
To highlight this new functionality, NetBeans.org has created a tutorial that shows how to use StrikeIron web services to build a Visual Web application using the Visual Web designer. Specifically, it demonstrates how to build a web app that invokes StrikeIron US Address Verification to verify an address entered by the user.
Figure 1. StrikeIron Node within Services Module
The final NetBeans IDE 6.0 release is planned for late 2007. We encourage you to try NetBeans 6.0 and provide feedback about your experience with the StrikeIron package.
The focus of NetBeans IDE 6.0 is improved developer productivity through a smarter, faster editor, and the integration of all NetBeans products into one IDE. Highlights of the NetBeans IDE 6.0 release include:
* Swing GUI Builder
* Intelligent Editor
* Ruby on Rails Support
* Visual JSF Design
* Web Services & SOA
* XML Schema Editor, XSLT Designer
And more.
The final NetBeans IDE 6.0 release is planned for late 2007. You can Download the most recent version here.