Netbeans m9 is out - otherwise I would have some trouble in my JavaONE Session :-)

I just opened some examples from the JavaEE 5 Architekturen book in Netbeans M9 - it works no surprises.
Netbeans comes with really interesting extensions to Matisse - the Netbeans UI builder. Especially interesting are:

The good integration of BeansBinding (JSR-295). The opportunity to bind a JavaBean (e.g. a JPA domain object) to the UI
Integration with JSR-296 (Swing Dev Appframework). It simplifies the creation of small and midrange applications. Especially asynchronous, declarative Actions are cool
Interesting Matisse enhancements. Especially the factoring-out of UI components into panel is usable. Also the positioning of UI-widgets was really improved.
Better JNLP (WebStart) integration
Better support for JPA in unmanaged environments
Very good JRuby and Rails support. The editor knows Ruby syntax (and highlights it) and is able to auto-complete methods etc, as well as is able to display the Ruby-Doc

What I especially like: the size of the distribution. The smallest profile comes with 21 MB....
On my slides for the Session TS-3559 (Fiday, 13.30) I already mentioned these features - and hoped they will be officially released at the JavaONE :-).