Netbean6 connect to my database

This is a new feature added to NB6. Some of developer will have a few application running while working with database and IDE. Can this feature replace the basic SQL query tool?

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ide/mysql.html will give you a pretty good start and feel for this feature. Out of box I was able query data and even copy the row of data! But... but you can't edit the cell if you want to change say "Y" to a "N"... I know I can write query for that, but I am lazy ;)

Another thing I notice (with about 1 hours using this feature) it DISCONNECT from database!!!! Is there anyway to keep the connection alive? There gotta be an option to do this I keep on getting the error (see screen shot below) ... I had to first disconnect than connect again.


instead of keep on blogging I will try to see if I can found a solution to this problem and post the solution.

gotta run...

NB6 lots of features but can it perform? --testing in progress

My background on my road to Netbean6.

@ my day job I am using RAD7 like many developers this the "official" tool.
@ home/side job I had been using Eclipse 3.2 with Instantiations's WindowBuilderPro it's pretty powerful GUI builder.... but I have been slowly moving to Netbeans the past year (since NB5). Since some of the projects are Swing based... if you have not create GUI from Netbeans you can't use NB's Matisse (this is due to NB's GUI uses some XML *.form to store extra information). But if you have decoupled the GUI from the business and backend it's pretty easy to draw with new NB (unless you have a screen with 10 different tables with button covers all extra spaces, than good luck).

Here the link to new Netbean 6 features, there are too many for me to list... some don't really care for.

With that say let's install this bad boy!
First if you download the full pack you can select the packs you need... 470 MB!!


--to be continue....