New Release Marks Latest Milestone from NetBeans Community; Providing
Huge Efficiency Boost for Developers
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and the NetBeans(TM) developer
community today announced the availability of the NetBeans Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) 6.7. This new version of NetBeans features
tight integration with Project
Kenai, Sun's collaborative hosting site for free and open source
projects. Developers can download the free, full-featured NetBeans IDE
6.7 at www.netbeans.org.
“The advances in the latest version of NetBeans will have a huge impact
in the productivity of developers,” said Jim Parkinson, vice president
of Developer Products and Programs at Sun. “The integration between
NetBeans and Kenai allows developers to stay in their IDE and quickly
navigate between Kenai.com,
local code, bug reports, IM chats and project wikis. Instead of
interruptions, interactions with code, or looking for project
information, team members become a natural part of the developers'
workflow.”
The tight integration of the new NetBeans IDE will enable millions of
developers to discuss, edit, debug and commit code through one
easy-to-use interface. Other key features of NetBeans IDE 6.7 include:
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Support for Maven,
a community software project management and comprehension tool;
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New “Team” menu provides access to projects on Kenai.com;
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Automated continuous integration system with Hudson,
an extensible Java(TM)-based solution which makes it easier for
developers to integrate changes to their project, and makes it easier
for users to obtain a fresh build;
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Improved PHP support allowing developers to connect with each other
and the latest technologies;
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Support for Zembly,
a single registry and repository of popular Web APIs. The Zembly
Client Library NetBeans plug-in enables developers to discover popular
APIs and with a simple Drag and Drop functionality, create the
necessary code to consume the APIs from Java and JavaFX(TM)
applications.
The integration with Kenai.com will allow developers to stay in the IDE
to create projects in the cloud, get sources from Kenai projects, query,
open and edit issues for them using Bugzilla.
