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

NetBeans IDE – a free integrated application development environment (IDE) for the programming language Java, Ruby, C++ and some others.
IDE NetBeans by default, supports the development for platforms J2SE and J2EE. For the programming environment and NetBeans at the whole, must be pre-installed Sun JDK or J2EE SDK appropriate version. To support development in the NetBeans environment for mobile platforms (J2ME) must be installed separately circulated NetBeans Mobility Pack.
NetBeans IDE is supported and sponsored by Sun Microsystems, but NetBeans is independently developed by community of developers, enthusiasts (NetBeans Community) and the company NetBeans Org.Quality and capabilities of the latest version of NetBeans IDE is not inferior to the best business (paying) integrated development environment for java, such as IntelliJ IDEA, supporting refactoring, profiling, providing syntax highlighting color, auto recruited designs on the fly, many predefined templates code, etc.
In the version of NetBeans IDE 6.0 is declared support for UML, SOA, a programming language Ruby (including support for Ruby on Rails), as well as a means to create applications for J2ME for mobile phones. NetBeans IDE supports plug-ins, allowing developers to empower IDE.Sun commercial integrated development environment for Java – Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Studio are based on ideas, technologies and in large part on the source code of NetBeans IDE.