Its here - Net Beans 6.5 is out!
The only IDE you need! Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
NetBeans IDE 6.5 Features
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, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.
The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features, improved support for using the Hibernate web framework and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration.
Highlights
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Create professional desktop applications using the NetBeans Java GUI Builder with Swing Application Framework and Beans Binding support. |
A fast and light-weight PHP IDE with code completion and quick fixes, integrated FTP and Xdebug, and support for popular Web Services. |
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Build web applications using Ajax, JavaScript, and CSS. Support for frameworks incl. JSF, Struts, Spring and Hibernate. Full set of tools for EJB development. |
Powerful Ruby editor with code completion and debugger, and full support for Ruby on Rails. Includes the JRuby runtime. |
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Create, test and debug GUI applications that run on mobile phones, set-top boxes, and PDAs. |
Full-featured C/C++ editor, debugger, project templates, support for multiple project configurations, remote development, and packaging of completed projects. |




Posted by tools on November 23, 2008 at 04:16 AM IST #
I agree that NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a wonderful IDE.
Loved all its features, but I thing it’s poor in performance Compared to MyEclipse
Posted by Bhavya on January 11, 2009 at 01:13 AM IST #