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1. NETBEANS 6.1
Satyajit Tripathi
Member Technical Staff
ISV-Engineering, Sun Microsystems
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2. NetBeans IDE 6.1
The only IDE you need!
• A comprehensive, modular Java IDE
> Out-of-box support for Java SE 1.5/1.6, Java EE 5, Java ME
> Large set of 3rd party modules (plug-in)
> Intuitive drag-and-drop development
> Debugger, Profiler, Refactoring, etc.
• Free and open-source based
> Open source since June 2000. Source code available under CDDL v1.0 & GPL v2
( * with CLASSPATH Exception)
> Large community of users and developers
• Supported on wide range of OS platforms
> Java Desktop System 2, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional sp4, Mac OS X 10.4.5 Intel,
and various Linux distributions
• A platform for building applications
> Rich client Java applications
> Rich framework of windows, menus, tool-bars, actions
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3. NetBeans 6.1 Download
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4. NetBeans 6.1
Open source IDE and Application platform
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5. NetBeans Roadmap
Community driven release cycle
NetBeans - Minor patches are planned every 5 weeks between major releases
• Upcoming NetBeans 6.5 ( Noteworthy, Development Plan )
> PHP Editor in NetBeans 6.5 to support all standard IDE features
> Focus on development tools for dynamic scripting language, JavaScript Debugger
> Enhanced support for Java Web Start. Improved integration with MySQL
> Remove UML dependency on the Tom Sawyer graphics library, etc.
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6. What's New in 6.x
NetBeans IDE 6.1 (NewAndNoteworthy)
• JavaScript support
• Spring Framework support
• MySQL support in Database Explorer
• Support for Java Beans
• JSF CRUD Generator
• Javadoc Code Completion
• Shareability of projects
• On Demand Binding Attribute for Visual Web JSF projects
• Axis2 support for web services
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7. Supported technologies
• Supported technologies • Tested Application Servers
> Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 > GlassFish V1 & V2
> JAX-WS 2.1 > Sailfin V1 (JSR 289 compatibility)
> Java Persistence (JSR-220) > Sun Java Application Server PE 8.2
> JavaServer Faces 1.2 (JSR-127) > Tomcat 5.0, 5.5 & 6.0
> Java Servlet 2.5 > JBoss 4.0.4
> JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.1 > WebSphere 6.0 & 6.1
> Struts 1.2.9 > WebLogic 9.2 & 10
> JAX-RPC 1.6
> JAX-R 1.0
> JAX-P 1.4
> JAX-B 2.1
> JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.1
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8. Sun Partner Community
“Revolutionary solutions
come from the meeting
of many different minds.”
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9. Participation Age
Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network
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10. Features – Base IDE and Java SE
• Base IDE
> Improved code editor support
> Database integration
> Version control and Developer collaboration
• Java SE
> Enhanced SWING GUI Builder (formerly Matisse)
> Profiler
> Debugger
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11. Improved Source Editor
• Language-Aware editor
Java, Ruby, C/C++, XML, HTML, RHTML,
Javadoc, JavaScript,and JSP
• Live Parsing and Refactoring
• Smarter code completion
• Insert code
• Inspect Members and Hierarchy
• File history
• Easy & fast navigation
• Fully configurable User Interface
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12. Database Integration
• Connect to any database
• Integrate MySQL easily
• Explore and maintain database
• Drag and Drop Tables
• Database based SWING or JSF
Web application
• Building Entity classes using JPA
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13. Version Control & Collaboration
• Integrated version control tools • Remote project sharing
• CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, • Developer collaboration chat
ClearCase
• File status and history
• Line-based Diff viewer
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14. SWING GUI Builder
• Professional GUI building
• Standard and Custom SWING
and AWT components
• Beans binding technology
(JSR 295) support
• SWING application Framework
(JSR 296) support
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15. Application Profiler
• Finding performance Bottlenecks and Memory leaks
• Profile entire application or subset
• Task based profiling
> CPU Performance, Monitoring Thread States, Memory
• New Feature in NetBeans 6.x
> Profiling points for precise control, Comparing Memory snapshots, Drill-down
graphs, Memory heap walker, Remote profiling, Dynamic attach on JDK 1.6
• Integrated with JMeter for Load Testing
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16. Debugger
• Configurable Breakpoints (Conditional & Event )
• Multi-Session and Multi-Threaded Debugging
• Expression Evaluation
• Expression Stepping
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17. NetBeans 6.1 Resources
• NetBeans Product Site : http://www.netbeans.org
> Download: previews, current & past releases of IDE, plugins
> Learning: tutorials, technical articles, flash demos
> Community: latest news, forums, events, mailing lists
• NetBeans Wiki : http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/
> Open-source documentation site for NetBeans
• Planet NetBeans : http://www.planetnetbeans.org/
> Aggregate for all NetBeans related blogs
• Source Code : cvs.netbeans.org:/cvs
> CVS source code access for NetBeans platform + IDE
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18. NETBEANS 6.1
Satyajit Tripathi
satyajit.tripathi@sun.com
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