NetBeans Portlet Plugin Release Notes

The NetBeans Portlet Plugin software includes a plugin for the Portlet Container 1.0 Beta software bundled with the Java Application Platform SDK Update 2 release.

Note: Also see the NetBeans Portlet Plugin Installation Instructions and read Developing Portlets with the NetBeans Portlet Plugin.

Supported Operating Systems

The NetBeans IDE 5.5 software runs on operating systems that support the Java VM. The NetBeans Portlet Plugin software has been tested on these platforms:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or newer
• Mac OS X 10.4.5 or newer
• Red Hat Fedora Core 3
• Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) 7/05 (SPARC® and x86/x64 Platform Edition)

The NetBeans Portlet Plugin software also runs on the following platforms:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4

• Solaris 8 OS (SPARC and x86/x64 Platform Edition) and Solaris 9 OS (SPARC and x86/x64 Platform Edition)
• Various other Linux distributions

Required Software

• The NetBeans Portlet Plugin software runs on NetBeans IDE 5.5 or higher.

• The NetBeans Portlet Plugin software has the same configuration requirements as the NetBeans IDE 5.5 software.

• The NetBeans Portlet Plugin software cannot be used to deploy portlets when the Portlet Container 1.0 Beta software is remote.


• The NetBeans Plugin allows PortletName with special characters.


• The NetBeans Plugin creates a skeleton for EDIT mode and HELP mode even though they are not selected during portlet creation.


• Creating a portlet  with the characters "!@#$%^&*()_+|\=-`~[][{}:";'<>?,./" as PortletName causes NetBeans to hang.