ANNOUNCE: NetBeans IDE 3.3 released

The NetBeans open source project is pleased to announce the release of
NetBeans IDE version 3.3.  The binaries are available for immediate
download from

  <http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html>

This major release marks a 50% improvement in startup time, graphical
annotations in the editor, cleaner UI, and much, much more.  For the
full list of new features and improvements, please see

  <http://www.netbeans.org/articles/releases/3.3/CHANGES.html>

For system requirements and installation instructions see

  <http://www.netbeans.org/articles/releases/3.3/README.html>

    
Highlights of NetBeans IDE features include:

 - ant support (the Apache build tool)
 - integrated CVS support 
 - fast editor with code completion, macros and syntax highlighting
 - compile, execute and debug with any JDK, not just the one you run
   NetBeans with
 - graphical form designer 
 - support for CORBA, RMI, JNDI and JDBC 
 - work in either SDI (multiple window) or MDI (single window) mode
 - Vim/XEmacs integration (extra module available from netbeans.org)
 - extra/updated modules and patches are available from the NetBeans
   AutoUpdate center

NetBeans is an open source, cross-platform IDE written in pure Java.  It
is known to run on Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenVMS,
HP-UX and OS/2, and should run on any platform with an implementation of
Java 2 SDK version 1.3 or later.

The whole IDE is built around a core application framework with APIs,
and features are implemented in the form of plug-in modules.  This
clean, modular architecture makes NetBeans an ideal platform for
building development tools and custom IDEs as well as many other types
of desktop applications.  People who are interested in extending the IDE
or using NetBeans as a platform to build custom applications can find
all the needed information at the OpenAPIs website

  <http://openide.netbeans.org/>

The source code of NetBeans is available to everyone under the Sun
Public License, an open source license very similar to the Mozilla
Public License.  For more information about the NetBeans open source
project, please see the website

  <http://www.netbeans.org/>

         -- NetBeans project