Netbeans6.5 Beta --Feature Highlights

Feature Highlights

PHP

• PHP Editor (Code completion, syntactic and semantic codehighlighting)
• Support for heredoc notation and PHTML
• Debugging using Xdebug
• Generators for MySQL database code snippets

JavaScript and Ajax

• JavaScript Editor and Debugger
• JavaScript Library Manager
• Yahoo UI, Woodstock, jQuery, Dojo, Scriptaculous, Prototypelibraries
• Improved CSS Editor

Java EE & Web Development

• Enhanced support for Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSF CRUDgenerator, JPA (Java Persistence API)
• Create RESTful web services from database tables or fromJPA entities
• Drag and drop SaaS services into PHP files
• SQL Editor Improvements (code completion, save/recallqueries, and more)
• Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization for Java Web projects
• Automatic Deploy on Save

Groovy and Grails

• Develop pure Groovy apps or use Groovy in Java SE projects
• Groovy editor (code completion, highlighting, and more)
• Grails web application framework
• Open existing Grails applications without adding metadata

Ruby and Rails

• New Test Runner interface for displaying test results
• Rake improvements: Rake Runner and a pre-generated Rake file
• Debugger: Conditional breakpoints and catchpoints
• Ruby projects accept JVM options from command line

GlassFish v3 Prelude for Web Development

• Modular, OSGi based architecture
• Small footprint, fast startup and deployment
• Support for scripting, including JRuby

C/C++

• Improved code completion, error highlighting, and semantichighlighting
• Call graph, Memory window
• Remote development
• Packaging of application as tar files, zip files, or SVR4packages

Java ME

• New project wizard for adding custom components to theVisual Designer Palette
• New SVG UI components in the enhanced SVG Composer enablerich UI design
• New Data Binding Custom Components in the Visual DesignerPalette
• Upgraded obfuscation tool to ProGuard 4.2 and testframework to JMUnit 1.1.0

Java SE

• Multi-threaded Java debugging
• Java Swing GUI Builder: TreeModel Editor for JTrees
• Automatic Compile on Save
• Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization

IDE Tools and Usability

• One QuickSearch shortcut for IDE actions, files, options, and docs
• Support for Windows UNC paths (shared network folders)