Feature Highlights
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<p><b>PHP</b></p>
<ul><li>PHP Editor (Code completion, syntactic and semantic code
highlighting)
JavaScript and Ajax
- JavaScript Editor and Debugger
- JavaScript Library Manager
- Yahoo UI, Woodstock, jQuery, Dojo, Scriptaculous, Prototype
libraries - Improved CSS 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
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 semantic
highlighting - Call graph, Memory window
- Remote development
- Packaging of application as tar files, zip files, or SVR4
packages
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 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)