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What's New in NetBeans IDE 6.0

1. Editor Improvements
2. Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails Support
3. Easier Installation and Upgrading
4. Swing GUI Development
5. Profiling
6. Web and Java EE
7. Mobility
8. SOA
9. UML
10. NetBeans Platform API Improvements

What's New in NetBeans IDE 6.0


Editor Improvements

Smarter code completion. The NetBeans editor is quicker and smarter, providing completions for keywords, fields, and variables. It also lists the most logical options at the top, and lets you dig down into the full options at the bottom

screenshot of a window being moved by drag and drop

Highlights. You can think of the highlights feature as an easy-to-use and more correct substitution for the editors Search. The IDE tracks the position of the caret and, based on it, highlights some parts of the code. The highlights are marked with a background color in the editor they are also put into the error stripe, which permits for having overview of the whole file.

Better Navigation and Inspection. In addition to Highlights, the source editor lets you quickly navigate through your code with improved Navigator window organization and the Members and Hierarchy Inspectors.

More than just code completion. With live templates and Surround With functionality, you can quickly enter commonly used blocks of code and focus on the business logic.
screenshot of debugger windows with the Local Variables window fronted


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