NetBeans is a platform for building rich client applications, an award-winning integrated development environment (IDE) for Java developers, and a community of users. As an IDE, it features an Ant-based project system, out-of-the-box Java EE support, a database explorer, an integrated profiler, and collaboration tools. Version 5.5 scheduled for release in fall 2006 will add support for Java EE 5 specifications like EJB 3.0 and JSR-168 portlets. The NetBeans community includes almost 10 million downloads and over 300,000 email list subscribers.