NetBeans IDE
The NetBeans IDE is a
free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for Java software
developers.
It provides all the tools needed to create
professional desktop, enterprise, web and mobile applications, in Java,
C/C++ and even Ruby.
It supports the following technologies: Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJB) 3.0, JAX-WS 2.1, Java Persistence (JSR-220), JavaServer Faces 1.2
(JSR-127), Java Servlet 2.5, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.1, Struts 1.2.9,
Java API for XML-based Remote Procedure Calls (JAX-RPC) 1.6, Java APIs
for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0, Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4,
Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.1, JavaServer Pages Standard
Tag Library (JSTL) 1.1.
Features include:
- Easy to use Java GUI Builder
- Professional GUI Building - design Swing GUIs
by dragging and positioning GUI components from a palette onto
a canvas
- Standard and Custom GUI Components
- Beans Binding technology (JSR 295) Support
- Swing Application Framework (JSR296) Support
- Visual Mobile Development - create, test, debug and deploy
applications that will run on mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes,
embedded systems — literally billions of devices
- Visual Web and Java EE Development - provides
tools for building all Java EE components, including Enterprise Java
Beans (EJBs), web pages, servlets, and web service
- Visual UML Modeling
- Forward and Reverse Engineering
- UML Diagram Types
- Customizable Code Generation
- C and C++ Development
- Allows C/C++ developers use their specified set
of
compilers and tools in conjunction with NetBeans IDE to build native
applications
- Ruby and Rails Support
- Editing facilities
- Basic editing
- Syntax highlighting for Ruby
- Code completion
- Occurrence highlighting
- Integrated documentation pop-ups for Ruby API calls
- Semantic analysis with highlighting of parameters and
unused local variables
- Ruby code debugging
- Ant-based Project system
- Version Control
- Refactoring
- Language support for coding to the proposed Java SE 7
specification
- Enhanced integration with the Oracle WebLogic server
- Support for Oracle Database and GlassFish
- Maven 3 and HTML5 editing support
- GridBagLayout designer for improved Swing GUI development
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