Project-based formatting in NetBeans 6.5

Being part of the NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing (NetCAT) Programme has definate advantages. For one, you get to try out all the new features planned and influence how they will work before being released to the general public (that is not quite true....anyone can download the daily development builds).



One of the features in the upcoming NetBeans 6.5 that I'm particularly happy about is Formatting by project. In NetBeans it has always been one configuration for all projects. This is slowly changing. During NetCAT for 6.1 the "Shared Library" feature was implemented to detach library management from NetBeans and thereby making projects more portable. So, this time the brilliant guys on the NetBeans development team implemented a feature making it possible to do project-based formatting. This is a great feature when you work on many different projects with different formatting requirements. Way to go! My hope is that for the next version of NetBeans they will also have made template management project-based.