Plain Old Java - Tools progress at Sun

NetBeans 4.2 will really be called 5.0. It's soon in beta and will feature Matisse (the Swing GUI builder), support for easy plug-in/NetBeans development (both for NetBeans-based Rich Applications and for extending NetBeans capabilities), new CVS, final version of the profiler (now in milestone 8), support for JBoss, Weblogic, Struts, JSF (See Geertjan's blog), new refactorings, new Options dialog, module manager, JSP and HTML palette, etc...
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alexismp?entry=tools_progress_at_sun