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Happy 10th Birthday, NetBeans!

NetBeans celebrates its 10th Birthday throughout the months of October, 2008. Its been 10 long years and the IDE has evolved into the present dominating position! You can have a look at the history of NetBeans over here. And here's what one of the founders of NetBeans, Jaroslav Tulach, had to say on this auspicious occasion. Good luck to NetBeans in future!

And along with these celebrations, the NetBeans 6.5 Release Candidate 2 was released! It comes with some great feature list with PHP support totally revamped, and lots others. Some of the features I really liked and would love to explore further are :

-- PHP editing features like code completion, syntactic and semantic code highlighting (Since I am working on providing NetBeans support for Drupal).

-- Automatic deploy on save for Web applications

-- Automatic compile on save for Java

-- Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization for Java and web projects.

-- Deadlock detection with visual indication for Java debugging

Posted at 09:29AM Oct 31, 2008 by Sujit Nair in Sun  |  Comments[0]