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Sunday May 11, 2008

Try NetBeans 6.1
NetBeans 6.1 has been out for about 2 weeks now, tho I have been remiss to mention it here.
NetBeans 6.1 is a minor-version update, but contains some significant changes, esp for C/C++ users. Among them:

Improved Code Completion (accuracy, relevance, response time)
Simplified User Model for Toolchain setup
Editor upgraded to NB 6.x APIs
Debugging improvements, especially with 'attach', MT applications and conditional breakpoints
Persistent symbol cross reference facility
Implement 'mark occurrences' and 'where used' in XRef client
Integrated assembler module in IDE
Open Solaris projects: to enable browsing and building Open Solaris

In addition to these, some of these other general improvements may also be of interest:

Upto 40% faster startup time, esp. with multiple projects involved
Lower memory usage with several fixes for memory leaks
Higher quality, overall
Window system improvements
NetBeans source base has moved from CVS to Mercurial, which is a distributable versioning system
Ruby 2.0 is now supported and bundled with NB
Integration with MySQL

Give it a try (Free downloads here).
A Sun Studio IDE release based on NetBeans 6.1 will be part of the next Sun Studio Express.

Posted by tatkar ( May 11 2008, 08:39:26 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

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