For those who don’t know, “NetBeans 5.5 has been released along with a completely redesigned website”:http://www.netbeans.org/index.html. I tried downloading everything yesterday and the site was insanely slow; however, I tried again this evening and received normal download speeds, so whatever the problem was, they seem to have corrected it.

One nice surprise is that the Enterprise Pack is available for download along with the final release. I had thought that it might be released a little while after since it lagged behind during the development process. Hopefully, they have not released it too early.

I have not really used the IDE(Integrated Development Environment) yet so I really can’t comment on it. As I use it over the next few weeks and months, I will be sure to post my opinion.

The website redesign is really nice and definitely needed. The nicest thing about the new look is how easy they have made it to download the new release. Like Firefox, they have placed a nice large button at the top of the page that says download.