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Netbeans 6.0 Released with Support for Ruby, Mobility Enhancements, and Integrated Profiler

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Today the Netbeans team released Netbeans 6.0. Earlier in the year 6.0 was dual licensed under GPL and CDDL. Version 6 comes a little more than a year after 5.5 and includes a number of significant enhancements including:

Editor Improvements

  • Smarter code completion
  • Highlights
  • Better Navigation and Inspection
  • Live Templates and Surround Functionality

Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails Support

  • Project support including Gems and RSpec
  • Advanced Ruby Editing
  • ActiveRecord Code Completion
  • Ruby Debugger
  • Ruby on Rails Support

Profiling

  • Profiler integrated into NetBeans IDE
  • Compare Memory Snapshots
  • Heap Walker
  • JMeter Integration
  • Dynamic Attach on JDK 1.6

Web and Java EE

  • Built-in visual design for web applications
  • Visual page flow editing
  • Enhanced JavaScript support
  • Enhanced web services support
  • Support for Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces components

Mobility

  • New Integrated UI for CLDC/MIDP and CDC development
  • New game builder
  • New Visual Mobile Designer
  • Re-written JSR-172 stub compiler

SOA

  • Artifacts for service composition and assembly
  • Graphical WSDL editor
  • XSLT editor to edit transformations
  • Tooling support for binding components
  • Java EE Web Service project support

The PDF based Netbeans Magazine has also released a 62 page issue dedicated to Netbeans 6.0.  InfoQ is publishing an ongoing series detailing the new Netbeans Ruby support.

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