# Netbeans 6.5 beta - Useful Productivity Enhancements For Java EE, Missing Some Features As Well

I spent some more time with Netbeans 6.5 Java EE functionality. First feedback:Field Level Access is generated now for Entities. However the Entities are still marked as Serializable - which is actually not necessary.Call Enterprise Bean, Use Database, Send JMS Message wizzards are available from the ctrl+enter "popup". This is really nice - it doesn't disturb the workflow. For strange reasons "Use Entity Manager" is not included into the pop-up and is only available via the usual menu."Deploy On Change" feature works surprisingly well. On every save all your changed EJBs are incrementally deployed to the application server. I testet it with Glassfish v2ur2, it works really well so far. This feature can be activated or deactivated in "Properties" -> "Run" and checkbox "Deploy On Change"....the splash screen is nice :-)What I'm missing or what would be nice:There was already a "design query" functionality in the SQL-explorer. I never actually used it for design a query, but it was very useful to visualize the tables with it's relations. It should be reintroduced (I think it is no more available since 6.0). [a killer feature]The support for ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptors could be better. There is no code completion in XML for Java Code etc. so it is easy to misspell class names etc. [especially useful for e.g. tracing interceptors]There is no support for orm.xml. So it is not vey easy to transform existing annotations into XML-deployment descriptors  [nice to have]Drag And Drop of JavaBeans (e.g. JPA-entities) into JSF visual editor with default generation of a form should be possible (not that hard...) -  this would be a killer feature.Sometimes Netbeans 6.5 is not able to reopen an existing EJB in the editor. It works, however, in the EJB-view (obviously a beta bug - it worked perfectly before)I'm using Netbeans 6.5beta in production - it works well so far, if not, I switch back to 6.1.