Netbeans IDE 6.0 Preview
June 1st, 2007 Posted in Programming, Software Dev.
As mentioned earlier in my post, Netbeans IDE 6 Preview is available now. You can check the roadmap below regarding the Netbeans open source project. From the roadmap, Netbeans IDE 6.0 will be released in November 2007. Hopefully, we can enjoy the new features implemented in the IDE.
Netbeans Roadmap
For those who are interested, whats new in Netbeans IDE 6.0 Preview? I will breifly list out the new features here for your reference. 8-)
1. Editor Improvements
- Smarter Code Completion
- Highlights
- Better Navigation and Inspection
2. Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails Support
- Ruby Project Support
- Advanced Ruby Editing
- Ruby Debugger
- Ruby on Rails Support
3. Easier installation and upgrading
- Unified installation experience
- Keep updated
4. Swing GUI Development
- Swing Database Applications
- Beans Binding
- Swing Application Framework support
5. Profiling
- Profiler Integration
- Porfiling Points
- New Select Profiling Task Dialog
- Heap Walker
6. Web and Java EE
- Build-in visual design
- Visual page flow editing
- Enhanced JavaScript support
- Greater web services suport
- Support for AJAX-enabled Java Server Faces
- Easy migration from Java Studio Creator
- Enhanced CSS Editing
7. Mobility
- New/Integrated UI
- New game builder
- New Visual Mobile Designer
- Design Analysis
- New custom components
- New custom flow control
- Improved project configuration management
8. UML
- Template based code generation
- Improved collection management
- Alignment Tools
- Distribute Tools
- New Window Layout
9. SOA
- Artifacts for service composition and assembly
- Graphical WSDL editor
- Business event processing
- XSLT editor to edit transformations
- Tooling support for binding components
- Interoperability with .NET services through WSIT
10. Netbeans Platform API Improvements
- Visual Library API
- NetBeans Preferences API
- Lexer
- Logger
- Generified Interfaces
Wish to know more? Visit here for more information. :-)
