NetBeans IDE 4.1 Early Access Now Available
The NetBeans open source project is proud to announce the early access release of the NetBeans IDE 4.1 as the project delivers significant new development capabilities for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE) including Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components and Web Services.

For downloads of this release go to:

• http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

NetBeans Quickstart Guide

• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/quickstart-j2ee-41.html

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Early Access 1 Annoucement:

• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/announce.html

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