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NetBeans IDE 6.8 Features

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

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The NetBeans IDE 6.8 is the first integrated development environment to provide complete support of Java EE 6 and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 platform. Developers hosting their open-source projects on kenai.com benefit from improved instant messenging and issue tracking integration in the IDE, including full support for JIRA. Other improvements include new powerful C/C++ profiling features, support for web application development with PHP 5.3 and the Symfony framework, and improved code completion, hints and navigation in JavaFX projects.

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Highlights

- Java Desktop Applications

Save years of work by building rock-solid Java Swing desktop applications with the NetBeans Platform framework. Combined with the award-winning NetBeans Swing GUI Builder you create professional graphical user interfaces.

- Connected Developer Integration

Create open-source projects and host them on Kenai.com: Check out, edit, debug, discuss and commit code, and file issue reports—all through the familiar NetBeans interface.

- Java Enterprise and Web Applications

Build web applications using CSS, JavaScript, and JSP. Support for frameworks includes JSF (Facelets), Struts, Spring, Hibernate. Full set of tools for Java EE 6, GlassFish v3, EJB, and web services development.

- Dynamic Languages

Powerful editor for JavaFX, JavaScript, CSS, PHP and Symfony, Groovy and Grails, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and Python. Includes semantic and syntactic highlighting, smart code completion, documentation pop-ups, and debugging integration.

- Visual Mobile Development

Create, test and debug GUI applications that run on mobile phones, set-top boxes, and PDAs. The NetBeans IDE supports JavaFX Mobile and the Java ME SDK 3.0 Platform.

- C and C++ Development

Full-featured C/C++ editor, profiler, debugger, project templates, support for multiple project configurations, remote development, and packaging of completed projects.

See a quick overview of features on the NetBeans IDE 6.8 Release Page.