The New Database Connection and Connect dialogs in NetBeans 5.0 have several
usability issues:

1. The Advanced tab is used to select the connection schema. When a new
connection is created if a schema with the same name as the user name is not
found in the database the Advanced tab is activated and the user is expected to
create a schema. OTOH if a schema with the same name as the user is found, the
new connection is created and the dialog is closed. The dialog unexpectedly
switching to the Advanced tab is not intuitive.

2. If the user wants to bypass the schema detection mechanism while creating a
new connection the process of connecting to the database must be invoked by
pressing the Get Schemas button in the Advanced tab. Otherwise if there is a
schema with the same name as the user in the database the user doesn't get a
chance to specify another schema. The flow therefore is: enter the database URL,
user name and password in the Basic setting tab, switch to the Advanced tab and
press Get Schemas button. At least this last step is not intuitive.

3. It is impossible to cancel the process of connecting to the database.
Pressing the Cancel button doesn't interrupt this process, instead it closes the
dialog.

4. When the user selects the option to remembed the password, it is difficult to
connect to another schema, since the Connect dialog is not displayed when
subsequently connecting to the database. There is also no dialog allowing to
turn this option off. The user has to open the Properties window in order to
change the schema and the remember password option.