Netbeans 6.8

The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform 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++.

The NetBeans project is supported by a vibrant developer community and offers extensive documentation and training resources as well as a diverse selection of third-party plugins.
Release Overview

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. Netbeans 6.8 is also recommended 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.

Netbeans 6.8 includes unique integration of Project Kenai, a collaborative environment for hosting open-source projects, now comes with full JIRA support, and improved instant messenger and issue tracker integration. Netbeans 6.8 contains features to the IDE’s Maven and database integration, and improved the editor and tools integration of Ruby, Groovy, and C/C++ projects.

Netbeans 6.7.1

NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 is a minor update to NetBeans IDE 6.7 and includes the following changes:

• Availability of the latest Netbeans IDE bundled with JavaFX SDK 1.2
• Numerous community nominated bug fixes included in Patch 1 for NetBeans IDE 6.7

The following updates to release Netbeans 6.5.1 included in version Netbeans 6.7 also apply to netbeans 6.7.1:

• Maven support for the creation of plugins and web services as well as support for POM and J2EE
• Netbeans 6.7.1 contains Kenai integration enables the creation and editing of Kenai hosted projects from within the netbeans IDE
• Netbeans 6.7.1 includes PHP improvements include Selenium support and SQL code completion
• Netbeans 6.7.1 includes C++ support for profiling, Qt library, code refactoring and macro expansion
• Web API Gateway plug-in enables consumption of Web APIs in applications
• Java ME support for CDC projects in the bundled Java ME SDK 3.0

Java Development Kit 6 Update 17 ( JDK 6 update 17 )

The JDK (which includes the JRE) is required to develop Java and JavaFX applications and applets. This special release JDK 6 update 17 provides a few key fixes.

Java Development Kit 6 Update 14 ( JDK 6 update 14 )

This release of jdk is Windows 7 support-ready and includes support for Internet Explorer 8, Windows Server 2008 SP2, and Windows Vista SP2. New features include the G1 garbage collector, plus performance and security enhancements.

Java SE 6 is the current major release of the Java SE platform. Sun endeavors to foster the highest level of transparency and collaboration on the platform with the Java community through Project JDK 6, resulting in the following key features.
Advantages to running applications on Java SE 6

• Applications run faster on the desktop and servers
• New ‘Dynamic Attach’ diagnostics simplify troubleshooting
• Expanded Solaris DTrace support provides additional value on Solaris
• Improved ‘native’ look and feel across Solaris, Linux, and Windows
• First Java platform with full support for Windows Vista

Benefits in upgrading developer environments to Sun’s Java SE 6

• JavaScript integrated and included with the platform
• Scripting languages framework extends support for Ruby, Python, and other languages
• Complete light-weight platform for web services, right out of the box
• Simplified GUI design and expanded native platform support
• Full JDBC4 implementation providing improved XML support for Databases
• Java DB included with the JDK, a free to use and deploy Java Database
• Full support by NetBeans IDE 5.5
• Sun Developer Services available to help build more robust applications

A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for java software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features, improved support for using the Hibernate web framework and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration.

Java EE & Web Development

• Netbeans 6.5 contains enhanced support for Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSF CRUD generator, JPA (Java Persistence API)
• Netbeans 6.5 allows to create RESTful web services from database tables or from JPA entities
• Drag and drop SaaS services into PHP files
• Netbeans 6.5 contains SQL Editor Improvements (code completion, save/recall queries, and more)
• Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization for Java Web projects
• Netbeans 6.5 provides automatic Deploy on Save