Today I installed Netbeans 6 and my first Impression is Wow! I will be posting in-depth look at netbeans-6.0 later.
but, what is new on netbeans-6.0?
Editor Improvements
- Smarter code completion
- Highlights
- Better Navigation and Inspection
- Live Templates and Surround Functionality
Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails Support
- Project support including Gems and RSpec
- Advanced Ruby Editing
- ActiveRecord Code Completion
- Ruby Debugger
- Ruby on Rails Support
Profiling
- Profiler integrated into NetBeans IDE
- Compare Memory Snapshots
- Heap Walker
- JMeter Integration
- Dynamic Attach on JDK 1.6
Web and Java EE
- Built-in visual design for web applications
- Visual page flow editing
- Enhanced JavaScript support
- Enhanced web services support
- Support for Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces components
Mobility
- New Integrated UI for CLDC/MIDP and CDC development
- New game builder
- New Visual Mobile Designer
- Re-written JSR-172 stub compiler
SOA
- Artifacts for service composition and assembly
- Graphical WSDL editor
- XSLT editor to edit transformations.
- Tooling support for binding components
- Java EE Web Service project support
Check out NetBeans 6.0 Released with Support for Ruby, Mobility Enhancemens, and Integrated Profiles