Netbeans6.5 Beta --Feature Highlights

Feature Highlights

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  <p><b>PHP</b></p>
  <ul><li>PHP Editor (Code completion, syntactic and semantic code

highlighting)

  • Support for heredoc notation and PHTML
  • Debugging using Xdebug
  • Generators for MySQL database code snippets


  • PHP Code Completion



    JavaScript and Ajax


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


    JavaScript quickfixes popup in the editor



    Java EE & Web Development


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


    web application persistence



    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


    Groovy code editor



    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


    Ruby code editor




    GlassFish v3 Prelude for Web Development


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


    glassfish app server



    C/C++


    • Improved code completion, error highlighting, and semantic
      highlighting
    • Call graph, Memory window
    • Remote development
    • Packaging of application as tar files, zip files, or SVR4
      packages


    Call graph







    Java ME


    • New project wizard for adding custom components to the
      Visual Designer Palette
    • New SVG UI components in the enhanced SVG Composer enable
      rich UI design
    • New Data Binding Custom Components in the Visual Designer
      Palette
    • Upgraded obfuscation tool to ProGuard 4.2 and test
      framework to JMUnit 1.1.0


    Java ME SVG palette







    Java SE


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


    swing treemodel view editor







    IDE Tools and Usability


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


    netbeans ide quicksearch