The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.9 Beta!

NetBeans Webmaster <[email protected]> Mon, 3 May 2010 12:01:56 +0000
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<h1>The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans=
 IDE 6.9 Beta.</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href=3D"http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.9/beta/">Download =
NetBeans IDE 6.9 Beta</a></li>
<li><a href=3D"http://netbeans.org/community/releases/69/">Learn More abo=
ut 6.9 Beta</a></li>
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NetBeans 6.9 Beta introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool fo=
r visually building JavaFX=20
GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applicatio=
ns. Additional highlights=20
include OSGi interoperability for NetBeans Platform applications; support=
 for JavaFX SDK 1.3,=20
PHP Zend framework and Ruby on Rails 3.0; as well as improvements to the =
Java Editor, Java Debugger,=20
and issue tracking, and more. NetBeans 6.9 Beta is available in English, =
Brazilian Portuguese,=20
Japanese and Simplified Chinese, as well as in several community-translat=
ed languages.
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<h1>Release Highlights</h1>
<ul>
<li><b>OSGi</b>
    <ul>
	    <li>Develop OSGi bundles with Maven</li>
		    <li>Bundled Felix container and ability to register other container=
s such as Equinox</li>
			</ul>
			</li>
			<li><b>NetBeans Platform</b>
			<ul>
				<li>OSGi interoperability: Developing and consuming OSGi bundles in P=
latform-based applications</li>
				    <li>Felix 2.0.3 OSGi support, experimental Equinox support</li>
					</ul>
					</li>
					<li><b>JavaFX</b>
					    <ul>
						    <li>JavaFX Composer for form-like UI components with states and=
 access to various data sources</li>
						        <li>Added and improved editor hints and refactoring</li>
						    	</ul>
						    	</li>
						    	<li><b>Java EE</b>
						    	    <ul>
						    		    <li>Support for Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) (=
JSR-299)</li>
						    		        <li>Spring Framework 3.0 support</li>
						    		        </ul>
						    		        </li>
						    		        <li><b>Java</b>
						    		    	<ul>
						    		    		<li>Java Debugger: Breakpoint grouping, attach paramete=
r history</li>
						    		    		    <li>Support for annotation processors in the editor=
, configurable in the Project Properties</li>
						    		    		    </ul>
						    		    		    </li>
						    		    		    <li><b>PHP</b>
						    		    			<ul>
						    		    				<li>Zend Framework support</li>
						    		    				    <li>"Overrides/Implements" and "Is Overridden/Imp=
lemented" annotations</li>
						    		    				    </ul>
						    		    				    </li>
						    		    				    <li><b>Ruby</b>
						    		    				    <ul>
						    		    					    <li>Ruby on Rails 3.0 support</li>
						    		    					    </ul>
						    		    					    </li>
						    		    					    <li><b>C/C++</b>
						    		    						<ul>
						    		    							<li>"Overrides/Is Overridden" annotations and hype=
rlink navigation</li>
						    		    							    <li>Console type "Internal Terminal"</li>=20
						    		    							    </ul>
						    		    							    </li>
						    		    							    </ul>
						    		    							    <p>
						    		    							    Read the complete list of <a href=3D"http://ne=
tbeans.org/community/releases/69/">NetBeans IDE 6.9 Beta Features</a>.
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						    		    							    The final release of NetBeans 6.9 is planned f=
or June 2010.
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ns/6.9/beta/">Download Beta</a>  today and give us your feedback about yo=
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