WhatsCoolInNetBeans60
What's Cool in NetBeans 6.0
Java Editing
- Largely improved code editing, inspection and navigation capabilities, see Java Editor User's Guide the features contain:
- Semantic Coloring
- Smart Code Completion
- Code Generation dialog
- Fast Error Marking
- Occurences Highlighting
- Hints, Warnings and Suggestions
- Instant Rename
- Rich Surround With
- Live Templates
- Task List/Problem Window
- Javadoc and Declaration View
- Inheritance and Structure Outline
- Many other improvements and small features
Ruby
- Set of new modules facilitating development for Ruby and JRuby
- Ruby project type and Ruby on Rails project type
- Advanced editor for Ruby language, see Ruby Editing Guide
- Semantics-Aware Syntax Highlighting
- Code Completion
- Navigation Display
- Code Folding
- Background Error parsing
- Mark Occurrences
- Go To Declaration (Hyperlinking)
- Code Templates
- Smart Indentation and Formatting
- Editor for RHTML and YAML languages
- Debugging of Ruby and Rails applications, see Ruby Debugging Guide
- Classic and Fast debugger
- Brekpoints, Call Stacks, Local Variables, Watches
- Thread Switching
- Ruby refactoring support
- Ruby Gem Manager
GUI Builder
- Easy visual Java Desktop application development using Swing App. Framework and Beans Binding
- Easy data-aware Swing apps with Beans Binding and Java Persistence
- Visual Menu Designer
Java Development
- Java Web Start support for J2SE projects
- JUnit4 support
- Including extra sources or excluding sources from J2SE projects
Web and Java EE
- Support for JavaScript editing
- Syntax Highlighting and Code completion
- Error checking
- Navigation Display
- Support for JavaScript in HTML, RHTML and JSP files
- Largely improved CSS editing
- Support for new versions of application servers
- Sun Java System Application Server 9.1
- JBoss 5
- Tomcat 6
- WebLogic 10
- Enhanced and more capable import of web applications
Visual Web
- Unification of Visual web project and NetBeans web project
- D & D consumption of web services in visual web apps
- D & D consumption of EJB 2.1 in visual web apps
- Common Page flow editor for NetBeans Web projects and Visual Web framework
- Visual query editor new accessible from Database explorer and migrated to the new graph library.
- Ajax enabled components from Project Woodstock Library
- Table component design time enhancements for generic type properties (including JPA classes)
- Ability to add help sets, create i18n-ed palette categories to component libraries for Visual Web.
- Common CSS editor for NetBeans Web projects and Visual Web framework
- VWP application outline now part of Navigator
Web Services
- Restful web services
- to wrap entity beans and expose CRUD functionality
- from scratch applying patterns
- Provide test client
- Ability to invoke partner services from the REST service
- New Visual Editor for JAXWS services
- Iterative developement of services built from-wsdl
- Add operations to handle selection of schema types along with java types
- Turn on support for WSIT functionality from the editor
- Ability to view sample SOAP messages on the service, view documentation etc
- JAXB wizard to support marshalling/unmarshalling of xml<->java in web, ejb and java projects
- Web Services Interoperability Technology(WSIT) to support WS-Policy and related standards
- Securing Java EE web Services using Access Manager
Profiler
- Profiler now an integral part of NetBeans IDE
- Full Java EE profiling capabilities
- Heap Walker, helps find memory leaks
- Areas of interests, visualization and drill-down capabilities for time spent in pre-defined categories such as UI, I/O, Net, EJB, Web, etc.
- Profiling points - http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/netbeans_60/ppoints/ppoints.html
- Support for Dynamic attach and other Java SE 6 new features
Debugger
- Expression-level stepping, fine-grained stepping through expressions with the ability to inspect partial results
- Heap Walker (based on the Profiler UI and support for new Java SE 6 JDI features)
- Reusable Editor Tab, navigating through sources using a single editor tab while debugging
Versioning
- Subversion now an integral part of NetBeans IDE
- New Visual, Editable Diff
- Local History
Mobility
- New Game builder
- New Visual Mobile Designer
- Design Analysis feature
- New built-in components:
- File browser
- SMS Composer
- Login screen
- PIM browser
- Re-written JSR-172 Stub compiler
- Improved project configuration management
- Improved build of multiple project configurations
- CDC supports all the project features that CLDC supports:
- Preprocessor support for device fragemntation
- Configuration Support
- Deployment options
- Project support built on Apache Ant
- Integrated Obfuscation and optimization support
XML
- A new set of graphical tools to work with XML Shemas. These tools are now an integral part of standard Netbeans, earlier they used to be a part of Enterprise Pack. See xml.netbeans.org.
- Improved refactoring of XML Schema components.
- Improved code completion support on XML documents based on Schemas.
WSDL
- Improved navigation from source view to other views.
- Improved performance in tree view.
UML
- Template based code generation
- Improved collections management during Forward and Reverse Engineering
- New alignment tools in the Diagram editor
- New distribute tools in the Diagram editor
- New window layout for Documentation and Design Center windows
- Save As action available on diagram node
SOA
- Composite Application Service Assembly Editor
- Graphical WSDL Editor
- Graphical XSLT Editor
- Binding Components (HTTP, JMS, File)
- Improved BPEL Designer and BPEL Editor
- Enhanced XML Tools
Base IDE
- Search And Replace in Files
- GTK look&feel for UNIX platforms with Gnome (when running on JDK 6u1 or newer)
- Floating Windows concept in UI of the IDE
- New Plugin Manager as a replacement for Autoupdate wizard and Module manager
- Project Groups
Installer
- Three installers: Basic, Standard and Full
- Unified installation UI across all NB components
- Ability to select components to be installed
