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| <h1>NetBeans IDE 6.5: My New Favorite IDE </h1> |
| <span style="font-style: italic;">December 2008</span><br> |
| <br> |
| <br> |
| A month ago, the NetBeans community released <a |
| href="../../community/releases/65/index.html">NetBeans IDE 6.5</a>. |
| Since then users worldwide have enthusiastically reviewed the IDE's new |
| PHP scripting, database and web development features, and more! Below |
| are |
| excerpts from satisfied users, and some converts!<br> |
| <br> |
| <h2>For developing Ruby Code, I head straight for NetBeans</h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| I'm primarily an Eclipse user, but I keep hearing about NetBeans |
| through the Java Posse and heck, I even subscribe to the NetBeans |
| podcast to try and keep an eye on what's up. [...] |
| The new release maintains what I first saw in 6.1: <span class="hi">a |
| very fast, full featured IDE. It's dead easy to get going, and there is |
| loads of documentation.</span> I find the project view to be much more |
| useful and better organised than the eclipse view of the same.<br> |
| <br> |
| One thing I did like very much is that there's <span class="hi">built-in |
| Maven support</span>. I downloaded the Java SE installation, went to |
| the plugins window and selected "maven". About a minute later I had a |
| working installation. Funnily enough, where I think |
| NetBeans really wins is the |
| dynamic languages support. [...] For developing Ruby code, I head |
| straight for NetBeans. |
| [...] Heck, the JavaScript support is pretty decent too.<br> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| Dominic Mitchell, <a |
| href="http://happygiraffe.net/blog/2008/11/20/netbeans-65/">Jabbering |
| Giraffe</a> (<a |
| href="http://happygiraffe.net/blog/2008/12/10/netbeans-correction/">p.s.</a>) |
| </p> |
| <h2>...this package holds nothing but the sweet stuff</h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>The list of early access Python tools includes an editor, |
| debugger and choice of Python runtimes. [...] |
| NetBeans is gaining some ground among non-Java developers. It's now <span |
| class="hi">one of the top two Ruby IDEs on the market</span>, said |
| Gartner analyst Mark Driver. [...] NetBeans broader language support is |
| turning NetBeans into more of a workbench along the lines of the |
| open-source Eclipse Framework, which, Driver said, makes it more |
| competitive with those market-changing tools.<br> |
| </p> |
| With the arrival of Eclipse a few years ago, many industry |
| watchers expected NetBeans to fade away, as did other Java IDEs. But |
| the toolset continues to stand as perhaps the <span class="hi">Eclipse |
| alternative</span>...<br> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| John K. Waters, <a href="http://adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=23650">Application |
| Development |
| Trends</a> |
| </p> |
| <h2>...a much more mature and easy to use product<br> |
| </h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>I am assisting my team in migrating over to use Netbeans |
| for most of our development. There are a few things that [Zend] Studio |
| does better, but Netbeans is just a much more mature |
| and easy to use product, even this early in their PHP support (I |
| used RC2 first and it was darn good.) |
| They fully support JavaScript Auto Complete for all types of JS |
| objects, something Studio does not do, and even support the use of |
| PHPDoc in Auto Complete for our in-house developed code.<br> |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| laurin1, <a |
| href="http://www.zend.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=19723&S=f9ecb8c59d3f82cd7dbe462aaad893ef">Zend |
| user forum</a> |
| </p> |
| <h2>NetBeans even does some of the things better than Zend Studio</h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>NetBeans, however, does about 95% of what Zend Studio does. |
| [...] NetBeans even does some of the things better |
| than Zend Studio - which is definitely an achievement.<br> |
| </p> |
| NetBeans debugger immediately worked with the xampp installation |
| I had on my PC. The installer already picked up my apache from there, |
| and when I fired up the debugger, <span class="hi">it worked seamlessly</span>. |
| Getting Zend Studio's debugger up and running was a bit more of a |
| hassle, and I actually needed to consult Google for that. [...] <span |
| class="hi">NetBeans 6.5 is officially my new favorite PHP/web-dev IDE</span>.<br> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| Jani Hartikainen, <a |
| href="http://codeutopia.net/blog/2008/12/01/netbeans-65-review/">CodeUtopia</a> |
| </p> |
| <h2>...the NetBeans plugin system Just Works<br> |
| </h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>They must have really looked at a PHP developer's daily |
| job, because <span class="hi">everything you need is already in there</span>: |
| SVN, CVS, CSS, SQL, and even support for jQuery! This even works within |
| 1 document: NetBeans figures out what's JavaScript, what's PHP, and |
| indexes & highlights all elements accordingly. And you can even |
| connect to a MySQL database. This is all out of the box. </p> |
| <p>And if a feature is missing, the NetBeans plugin |
| system Just Works. Go ahead & install additional features. |
| No need for a science degree there. </p> |
| <p><span class="hi">Code completion is fast & accurate. Manuals |
| are integrated. Existing Eclipse projects can be imported</span>, no |
| need to keep separate workspace directories. Just switch back and forth |
| between NetBeans & Eclipse (or your other IDE of choice) until |
| you've made up your mind.<br> |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| Kevin van Zonneveld, <a |
| href="http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/my_new_ide_netbeans/">KvZ |
| TechBlog</a> |
| </p> |
| <h2>This tool is fantastic!<br> |
| </h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p><span class="hi">NetBeans can communicate with xdebug!</span> |
| I've played with xdebug before, but I could never get along with it, |
| there was so much setting up you had to do, so many little things to |
| change that could effect the end result - it just didn't seem |
| practical, so I kept to my own debugging methods. NetBeans, however |
| changed this!<br> |
| </p> |
| This tool is fantastic! Close to 5 years |
| I have been developing in PHP and not once have I come close to using |
| anything as good as NetBeans. <span class="hi">The interface is clean |
| and concise.</span> It's fast with no lag when you need to see the |
| method list. [...] It's a perfect tool for anyone who uses PHP, what |
| ever their level, <span class="hi">I am going to suggest NetBeans to |
| all of my friends and hopefully you will too!</span><br> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| Richard Ive, <a |
| href="http://xanox.net/blog/2008/12/10/php-debugger-netbeans-xdebug-awesome/">Rants |
| Raves and Tech</a> |
| </p> |
| <h2>...a full-featured web application development environment<br> |
| </h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>[Regarding PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor support] this |
| release has become a full-featured web application |
| development environment. [...] Also, Sun has enhanced its |
| support for C/C++ developers, allowing them to develop locally on any |
| supported platform, and then perform distributed builds on other |
| computers/servers, and even remotely debug in, say, a remote |
| production-like environment.<br> |
| </p> |
| <p>This release includes an enhanced database connection |
| interface |
| [...] and built-in support for database operations. [...] Overall, it's |
| not meant to be a replacement for a complete suite of database tools, |
| but a lot of effort was put into <span class="hi">allowing developers |
| to stay within the IDE for the operations that they perform the most</span>. |
| </p> |
| <p>Sun is looking to make it the <span class="hi">development |
| environment for cloud computing</span>. This is both in terms of |
| developer tools and services, as well as the deployment and maintenance |
| of applications.<br> |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| Eric Bruno, <a |
| href="http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=NetBeans-6.5---The-Untold-Story.html&Itemid=29">Dobbs |
| Code Talk</a> |
| </p> |
| <h2>...compares favorably to more established competitors<br> |
| </h2> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>For web developers, NetBeans 6.5 now supports Ruby and PHP |
| out of the box. Surprisingly, that support is so good that it now |
| compares favourably to more established competitors like |
| Eclipse, Komodo IDE, and Zend Studio.<br> |
| </p> |
| NetBeans isn't a toy for learning Java anymore. These days, it's |
| <span class="hi">a powerful, multi-language development environment |
| that's free</span> for the taking. If you work on sizable PHP projects |
| and you're not using an IDE like NetBeans, <span class="hi">you might |
| be surprised at how much time a tool like this can save you!</span><br> |
| </blockquote> |
| <p align="right"> |
| Kevin Yank, <a |
| href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/12/16/php-support-in-netbeans-65/">SitePoint |
| PHP</a> |
| </p> |
| <p><br> |
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