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<h1>NetBeans IDE 6.8 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> | |
that enable developers to rapidly create | |
web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java | |
platform, as well as JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, | |
Groovy and Grails, and C/C++. | |
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<a href="http://plugins.netbeans.org">plugins</a>. | |
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<h2>Release Overview</h2> | |
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NetBeans IDE 6.8 is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 spec with | |
improved support for JSF 2.0/Facelets, Java Persistence 2.0, | |
EJB 3.1 including using EJBs in web applications, RESTful web services, and GlassFish v3. | |
We also recommend it for developing with the latest JavaFX SDK 1.2.1, and for | |
creating PHP web applications with the new PHP 5.3 release or with the Symfony Framework. | |
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Our unique integration of <a href="http://kenai.com/">Project Kenai</a>, | |
a collaborative environment for hosting open-source projects, | |
now comes with full JIRA support, and improved instant messenger and issue tracker integration. | |
We also added features to the IDE's Maven and database integration, | |
and improved the editor and tools integration of Ruby, Groovy, and C/C++ projects. | |
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<h2>Get the NetBeans IDE 6.8 </h2> | |
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<h2>Documentation</h2> | |
<p>Use the following documents to get started with NetBeans IDE 6.8.</p> | |
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<li><a href="relnotes.html">Release Notes</a></li> | |
<li><a href="install.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> | |
<li><a href="../../../kb/kb.html">Recent Tutorials</a></li> | |
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<h2>Feature Highlights</h2> | |
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<p><b>Java Enterprise Edition 6</b></p> | |
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<li>Web Projects with Java EE 6 and Java EE 6 Web profiles, EJBs in web applications | |
</li><li>EJB 3.1 support, EJB project file wizard also supports Singleton session type | |
</li><li>RESTful web services (JAX-RS 1.1), GlassFish Metro 2.0 web services (JAX-WS 2.2), JAXB 2.2 | |
</li><li>Java Persistence JPA 2.0, deployment, debugging and profiling with GlassFish v3 application server</li> | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 86px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/java-ee-6.png" alt="java ee 6"> | |
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<p><b>Web Projects with JavaServer Faces 2.0 (Facelets)</b></p> | |
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<li>Code completion, error hints, namespace completion, documentation popups, and tag auto-import for Facelets | |
</li><li>Editor support for Facelets libraries, composite components, expression language, including generators for JSF and HTML forms | |
</li><li>Customizable JSF components palette generates JSF forms and JSF data tables from entities | |
</li><li>New File wizard generates customizable CRUD (create/read/update/delete) JSF pages from entities</li> | |
<li>Broader usage of annotations instead of deployment descriptors</li> | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 160px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/facelets.png" alt="facelets"> | |
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<p><b>JavaFX</b></p> | |
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<li>Added support for the latest JavaFX SDK 1.2.1 | |
</li><li>Improved code completion | |
</li><li>Editor Hints: Fix Imports, Surround With, Implements Abstract Methods, and more | |
</li><li>Improved navigation: Hyperlinks, Go to Type, Find Usages | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 139px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/javafx.png" alt="javafx RIA mesh-up with graph"> | |
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<p><b>Kenai.com: Connected Developer</b></p> | |
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<li>Full JIRA support (plugin from update center) | |
</li><li>Project dashboard with more member and project details, improved search and navigation, easier project sharing | |
</li><li>Improved instant messenger integration: Online presence, private and group chat with Kenai members, easy to add links to code / files /issues / stack traces to messages | |
</li><li>Improved issue tracker integration</li> | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 158px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/kenai.png" alt="kenai.com"> | |
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<p><b>PHP</b></p> | |
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<li> Full PHP 5.3 support: namespaces, lambda functions and closures, syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary conditions, jump labels, __callStatic() | |
</li><li>Symfony Framework support: Symfony projects, Symfony commands, shortcuts, PHP syntax coloring in YAML files | |
</li><li>Create a PHP project from a remote PHP application | |
</li><li>PHPUnit, Code Coverage, FTP/SFTP integration improvements, exclude PHP project folders from scanning/indexing | |
</li></ul> | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 144px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/php.png" alt="php"> | |
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<p><b>Maven</b></p> | |
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<li>New Project from Maven archetype catalog and improved support for Java EE 6, Groovy, Scala projects | |
</li><li>Customizable dependency exclusion in dependency graph | |
</li><li>Maven CheckStyle plugin | |
</li><li>"Update from Kenai" action for Kenai.com-hosted Maven projects | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 155px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/maven.png" alt="maven"> | |
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<p><b>Ruby</b></p> | |
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<li>Support for creating Rails 2.3.4 apps with dispatchers, JRuby 1.4, Ruby 1.9 debugging, and RSpec 1.2.7 | |
</li><li>Improved rename refactoring, type inference, and navigation | |
</li><li>Specifying arguments for Rails servers | |
</li><li>Run/Debug File with arguments, also for files not part of a project</li> | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 92px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/ruby.png" alt="ruby"> | |
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<p><b>C and C++</b></p> | |
<ul><li>Profiling: New Microstate Accounting indicator, Thread Map view, Hot Spots view, Memory Leaks view, Sync Problems view | |
</li><li>Faster synchronization during remote development | |
</li><li>Support for gdbserver attach and easier attaching to already running processes | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 125px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/c-profiler.png" alt="c and c++"> | |
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<p><b>Miscellaneous Improvements</b></p> | |
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<li>Java Debugger: Mark an object in the variables tree with a name to refer to it in expressions | |
</li><li>Database integration: Code completion in SQL Editor now also for DELETE, DROP, UPDATE statements, and for reserved keywords | |
</li><li>Groovy 1.6.4 & Grails: Improved code completion, including methods introduced via AST Transformations | |
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<img style="border: 1px solid ; width: 200px; height: 140px; " src="../../../images_www/screenshots/6.8/databases.png" alt="databases"> | |
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