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NetBeans IDE 6.5 Features

Web Application Development

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Rapidly build standards-based web applications using Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Applets, Java Web Start (JNLP), and JavaServer Faces (JSF) and JavaServer Pages (JSP).

JSF Development

Link pages in your web application with the new Page Flow Editor, supporting JSF, JSP, and HTML pages. The IDE comes with an editor for deployment descriptors (web.xml files). and an HTTP monitor for tracking and debugging the data flow between components of a web app.

Use the JSF CRUD application generator (Create-Read-Update-Delete) to create a complete functional JavaServer Faces (JSF) page for manipulating data from a database in a few steps.

Standard JSF Components

Add Dynamic Faces and the JSF framework to your web project, and work with standard JSF reference implementation components. This includes a comprehensive library of JavaServer Faces components such as Table, Calendar, Tree, Tab Set, File Upload, and more.

JSP Development improved!

The editor assists you with features such as code completion, hyperlinking, and error checking, for JavaServer Pages (JSP) files, including debugger integration. You can leverage the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL), the Struts 1.2.9 and 1.3.x web frameworks, Spring web framework, and also our new Hibernate 3.2.5 plugin. (Read more about Spring on our Java EE page)

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Advanced JSF Components with ICEfaces improved!

Integration of ICEfaces in NetBeans enables you to go beyond the standard JSF Components and start using the advanced ICEfaces component suite. All these advanced components are based on the Automatic Ajax features of the ICEfaces framework, so you get Rich Internet Application features using a pure Java development. ICEfaces supports both the visual JSF and Facelets editor available in NetBeans. Learn more about the ICEfaces Plugin for NetBeans IDE.

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Database and Data Binding Tools

Customize queries, add joins, specify criteria, preview results (and more) with the Query Editor. Use the Database Explorer to make connections to database servers, view and change database schema, view the data in your tables and views, and execute arbitrary SQL statements against a database. The IDE supports drag-and-drop binding to data services and includes a Data Provider API for binding to other heterogeneous data sources.

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Databases improved!

The Database Explorer works with JavaDB (Derby), MySQL and PostgreSQL out of the box. The Explorer supports any relational database for which there is a JDBC driver, including Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PointBase, Sybase, Informix, Cloudscape, InstantDB, Interbase, Firebird, FirstSQL, Mckoi SQL, HSQLDB, Hypersonic SQL, Micrososft Access.

 

- Web Application Learning Trail

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