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NetBeans IDE 6.9 Features

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NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, support for JavaFX SDK 1.3, OSGi interoperability, support for the PHP Zend framework and Ruby on Rails 3.0, and more. What do developers say about the NetBeans IDE, and why did they switch?

Highlights

-Java Desktop Applications

Create professional standards-based user interface with the NetBeans Swing GUI Builder. Save years of work by building Java Swing desktop applications with the NetBeans Platform framework.

-JavaFX Composer

Use the JavaFX Composer to lay out JavaFX GUI applications visually, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications.

-Java Enterprise and Web Applications

Build web applications using CSS, JavaScript, and JSP: Support for frameworks includes JSF (Facelets), Struts, Spring, Hibernate, and a full set of tools for Java EE 6, CDI, GlassFish 3, EJB, and web services development.

-Dynamic Languages

Benefit from one combined tool that supports JavaFX Script, CSS, PHP (Zend and Symfony), Groovy and Grails, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript.

-Visual Mobile Development

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

-C and C++ Development

Edit, profile, and debugg C/C++ applications, and make the most of multiple project configurations, remote development, and packaging.

See a quick overview of features on the NetBeans IDE 6.9 Release Page.