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The Portal Pack 3.0 M2 is now available for download. These plug-ins are supported on NetBeans 6.5 Beta or later. 

Highlights of the new features added in this release are :

• Separate instance type called "Liferay Portal Server"
• Integration with Liferay Portal Server 5.1.x running on Glassfish V2/V3 and Tomcat 5.x/6.x
• Support for Spring MVC Portlet : Using this plug-in, user can develop a portlet using spring webmvc portlet framework.
• Service Builder Plug-in : This plug-in provides liferay's service builder capabilities inside NetBeans IDE. Using this plug-in, user can generate and use services inside their portlets created by NetBeans Portal Pack. This plug-in also helps developer to write a database portlet quickly using service builder infrastructure. User can modify a service xml either through standard xml editor or through advance design editor for service xml.
• Liferay Taglib Palette : A new jsp palette has been added to help developer to use Liferay specific taglibs inside their JSPs. Currently it supports all Journal taglibs through this palette.  But all other Liferay specific taglibs are also exposed to the portlets, so that user can add them manually to their jsp code.
• Liferay's Service API and taglibs can be directly used inside NetBeans created portlet. All required libraries are automatically added to the project's compile time classpath.

(Service XML Editor. Click on the image to enlarge)