NetBeans IDE 6.9 Beta Available for Download!

The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of *NetBeans 
IDE 6.9 Beta <http://netbeans.org/community/releases/69/>*.

    * *Download Beta <http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.9/beta/>*

NetBeans 6.9 Beta introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool 
for visually building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI 
builder for Java SE applications. Additional highlights include OSGi 
interoperability for NetBeans Platform applications; support for JavaFX 
SDK 1.3, PHP Zend framework, and Ruby on Rails 3.0; as well as 
improvements to the Java Editor, Java Debugger, and issue tracking, and 
more. NetBeans 6.9 Beta is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, 
Japanese and Simplified Chinese, as well as in several 
community-translated languages.

*Release Highlights:

OSGi*

    * Develop OSGi bundles with Maven
    * Bundled Felix container and ability to register other containers
      such as Equinox

*NetBeans Platform*

    * OSGi interoperability: Developing and consuming OSGi bundles in
      Platform-based applications
    * Felix 2.0.3 OSGi support, experimental Equinox support

*JavaFX*

    * JavaFX Composer for form-like UI components with states and access
      to various data sources
    * Added and improved editor hints and refactoring

*Java EE*

    * Support for Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) (JSR-299)
    * Spring Framework 3.0 support

*Java*

    * Java Debugger: Breakpoint grouping, attach parameter history
    * Support for annotation processors in the editor, configurable in
      the Project Properties

*PHP*

    * Zend Framework support
    * "Overrides/Implements" and "Is Overridden/Implemented" annotations

*Ruby*

    * Ruby on Rails 3.0 support

*C/C++*

    * "Overrides/Is Overridden" annotations and hyperlink navigation
    * Console type "Internal Terminal"

Learn more about this Beta release 
<http://netbeans.org/community/releases/69/>.

The final release of NetBeans 6.9 is planned for June 2010. Download 
Beta <http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.9/beta/> today and give us 
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