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| <h1>NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 Release Information</h1> |
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| The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning Integrated Development Environment |
| available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. |
| The NetBeans project consists of an |
| <a href="../../../../features/index.html">open-source IDE</a> and |
| an <a href="../../../../features/platform/index.html">application platform</a> |
| which enable developers to rapidly <a href="../../../../kb/index.html">create</a> |
| web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as |
| PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy, and C/C++. |
| It is supported by a vibrant <a href="../../../../community/index.html">developer community</a> |
| and offers a diverse selection of third-party <a href="http://plugins.netbeans.org">plugins</a>. |
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| <h2>Release Overview</h2> |
| <p> |
| In addition to full support of all Java platforms (Java SE, Java EE, Java ME, and JavaFX), |
| the NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 is the ideal tool for software development |
| with PHP, Ajax and JavaScript, Groovy and Grails, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and C/C++. |
| The 6.5.1 release provides enhanced support for web frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, JSF, JPA), |
| the GlassFish application server, and databases. |
| Additionally it includes a new IDE-wide QuickSearch shortcut, a more |
| user-friendly interface, and automatic Compile on Save. |
| </p> |
| <p>The NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 release is a minor <a href="relnotes.html">update</a> |
| to <a href="../index.html">NetBeans IDE 6.5</a>.</p> |
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| <h2>Get the NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 </h2> |
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| <h2>Documentation</h2> |
| |
| <p>Use the following documents to get started with NetBeans IDE 6.5.1.</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="relnotes.html">Release Notes</a></li> |
| <li><a href="install.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h2>Feature Highlights</h2> |
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| <p><b>PHP</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>PHP Editor (Code completion, syntactic and semantic code highlighting)</li> |
| <li>Support for heredoc notation and PHTML</li> |
| <li>Debugging using Xdebug</li> |
| <li>Generators for MySQL database code snippets</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 127px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/php-code.png" |
| alt="PHP Code Completion"> </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>JavaScript and Ajax</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>JavaScript Debugging on FireFox & Internet Explorer |
| <li>HTTP transaction monitoring |
| <li>Improved JavaScript and CSS Editor</li> |
| <li>JavaScript Library Manager incl Yahoo UI, Woodstock, jQuery, Dojo, Scriptaculous, Prototype libraries</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="middle"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 67px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/javascript-quickfix.png" |
| alt="JavaScript quickfixes popup in the editor"> </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>Java EE & Web Development</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Enhanced support for Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSF CRUD |
| generator, JPA (Java Persistence API) </li> |
| <li>Create RESTful web services from database tables or from |
| JPA entities</li> |
| <li>Drag and drop SaaS services into PHP files</li> |
| <li>SQL Editor Improvements (code completion, save/recall |
| queries, and more) </li> |
| <li>Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization for Java Web projects</li> |
| <li>Automatic Deploy on Save</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 115px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/spring-web-app-refactor.png" |
| alt="web application persistence"> </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>JavaFX</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Create, test, debug, profile, and deploy JavaFX projects</li> |
| <li>JavaFX editor with syntax highlighting, source navigation, |
| code completion, code folding, javadoc pop-ups, and error detection.</li> |
| <li>Live preview of visual elements</li> |
| <li>Code snippet palette for transformations, effects and animations</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" style="vertical-align: top;"><img |
| style="border: 0px solid ; width: 210px; height: 120px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/javafx.png" |
| alt="javafx video cube"> </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>Groovy and Grails</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Develop pure Groovy apps or use Groovy in Java SE projects </li> |
| <li>Groovy editor with code completion, highlighting, and more </li> |
| <li>Grails web application framework </li> |
| <li>Open existing Grails applications without adding metadata</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 99px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/groovy-editor.jpg" |
| alt="Groovy code editor"> </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>Ruby and Rails</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>New Test Runner interface for displaying test results </li> |
| <li>Rake improvements: Rake Runner and a pre-generated Rake file</li> |
| <li>Debugger: Conditional breakpoints and catchpoints</li> |
| <li>Ruby projects accept JVM options from command line </li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 130px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/ruby.png" alt="Ruby code editor"> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>GlassFish v3 Prelude for Web Development</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Modular, OSGi based architecture </li> |
| <li>Small footprint, fast startup and deployment</li> |
| <li>Support for scripting, including JRuby |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="middle"><img |
| style="width: 96px; height: 96px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/glassfish.jpg" |
| alt="glassfish app server"> </td> |
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| <p><b>C/C++</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Improved code completion, error highlighting, and semantic |
| highlighting</li> |
| <li>Call graph, Memory window </li> |
| <li>Remote development</li> |
| <li>Packaging of application as tar files, zip files, or SVR4 |
| packages</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <td align="center" valign="middle"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 134px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/call-graph.png" alt="Call graph"><br> |
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| <p><b>Java ME</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>New project wizard for adding custom components to the |
| Visual Designer Palette </li> |
| <li>New SVG UI components in the enhanced SVG Composer enable |
| rich UI design</li> |
| <li>New Data Binding Custom Components in the Visual Designer |
| Palette</li> |
| <li>Upgraded obfuscation tool to ProGuard 4.2 and test |
| framework to JMUnit 1.1.0</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 130px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/mobility.png" |
| alt="Java ME SVG palette"><br> |
| <br> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>Java Debugger</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>New multi-threaded debugging with improved UI and work-flow</li> |
| <li>Smart Step Into with method selection right inside expression</li> |
| <li>Deadlock detection with visual indication</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="middle"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 149px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/debugger.png" |
| alt="swing treemodel view editor"><br> |
| <br> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <p><b>Java SE</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Automatic Compile on Save</li> |
| <li>Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization</li> |
| <li>Java Call Hierarchy</li> |
| <li>Analyze Javadoc</li> |
| <li>Swing GUI Builder can generate simple or fully qualified class names</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="middle"><img |
| style="border: 1px solid ; width: 210px; height: 127px;" |
| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/gui-builder-class-names.png" |
| alt="swing treemodel view editor"><br> |
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| </tr> |
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| <p><b>IDE Tools and Usability</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>CamelCase code completion </li> |
| <li>Customize formatting settings per project</li> |
| <li>One IDE-wide QuickSearch shortcut for files/symbols/types, IDE actions, |
| options, and docs</li> |
| <li>Support for Windows UNC paths (shared network folders) </li> |
| </ul> |
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| src="../../../../images_www/screenshots/6.5/quick-search.gif" |
| alt="netbeans ide quicksearch"> </td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| <p>Learn more at the <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeans651"> |
| NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 development page</a>.</p> |
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