Netbeans IDE is an award winning Integrated Development Environment for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. Netbeans recently released its latest version Netbeans IDE 7.0 that features support for Oracle database and Glassfish 3.1, enhanced integration with the Oracle Weblogic server, HTML 5 editing support, language support for development to the Java SE 7 specification with JDK 7 language feature and few more. 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 PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
Feature Highlights
JDK 7
- Project Coin support
- Editor enhancements: Code completion, hints
- Streamlined and faster deployment to WebLogic
- New server runtime node displaying deployed applications and resources
- JSF integration with server libraries
- Simplified connection wizard
- Guided installation to JDBC driver
- Editing and deployment of stored procedures
- GlassFish 3.1 support
- Domain restart and log viewer for remote GlassFish
- Enable and disable deployed applications
- Maven 3 support
- JUnit 4.8.2 integration and various JUnit improvements
- Remote HTTP URLs supported for Javadoc in libraries and Java platforms
- New improved visual customizer for GridBagLayout
- Improved support for CDI, REST services and Java Persistence
- New support for Bean Validation
- Support for JSF component libraries, including bundled PrimeFaces library
- Improved editing for Expression Language in JSF, including code completion, refactoring and hints
- HTML5 editing support
- JSON formatter
- Generate PhpDoc
- Rename refactoring, Safe Delete Refactoring
- PHP 5.3 - Support for aliases
- Easy import of project from user's existing binary
- New Project type where user's source files are located on remote system
- Annotations for generating Action registrations in the layer
- Performance enhancements & tight integration with Profiler
- Additional NetBeans API changes
- Word wrap in Editor
- Enhanced Profiler integration
- Less intrusive checking for external changes when switching between the IDE and other programs.
NetBeans IDE 7.0 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. You may require Java 6, JDK 6 to install and run Netbeans IDE. Netbeans IDE is available individually for Java SE, Java EE, C/C++, PHP and a pack for all users.