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Angad Singhblogs.sun.com/angad

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BOJUGBOJUG

Netbeans 6.1:Netbeans 6.1:New and NoteWorthy!New and NoteWorthy!

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Agenda: What's new in Netbeans 6.1

Performance & Quality

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Performance • Increasing performance is main theme of NB 6.1 !

• Upto 40% faster cold startup and improved startup sequence!

• Various optimizations to reduce I/O and file access (touching disk)

• Incremental parsing in java editor speeding up code completion and improving responsiveness in editor

• Improvements in JSP parser (caching, memory management, update strategies)

• Improvements in Visual Web designer -- faster page opening and table drop, lower memory usage, fixed memory leaks, and more

Performance Press Release:http://wiki.netbeans.org/Fitness61PressRelease

Performance FAQ:http://wiki.netbeans.org/FitnessFAQs

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JavaScript Support• Based on the General Scripting Framework (same as Ruby)

• New JavaScript editor with features like:> Semantic Highlighting> Mark occurrences> Instant Rename> Refactoring> Quick Fixes and Semantic Checks> Tasklist> Code Completion and Type Analysis> Go To Declaration> Documentation> Embedded Completion> Browser Compatibility Info> Embedding> Open Type> 6.0 Java Script Information

• Work on a JavaScript debugger is in progress

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Demo

JavaScript Support

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PHP Support• Comes in a 16 mb forked distribution of Netbeans currently:

NetBeans IDE 6.1 Early Access for PHP

• Editor Features:> Syntactic and semantic code highlighting> Go to Declaration> Navigator> Code formatting / folding> Smart Indent> Bracket Completion> Automatic Code Completion – Snippets, Context-Sensitive Proposals, Abbreviations> Instant Rename> Parameter Hints

• Debug PHP apps using Xdebug: inspect local variables, set watches, evaluate code, etc.

• Configuring the environment is simple

• Synchronizing the content of a PHP Project with the Web content on a remote server (under development)

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Demo

PHP Support

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RESTful Web Service Plugin• Support for Jersey 0.5: the plugin now bundles Jersey 0.5 version and

generate code conformed to new API.

• New REST Test Client UI: support for sub-resources navigation

• New REST client wizard support for generation of stub generation from WADL

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Sharable Projects• New type of project

• New feature which allows creating projects with shared definition of libraries

• Applies to all Java, Web and all J2EE project types

• Add relatively referenced JAR files as libraries

• Easy migration of projects

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Demo

Sharable Projects

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New MySQL Support in Database Explorer• Register and manage a MySQL server

• View, create, delete databases

• Launch MySQL Admin tool

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Demo

MySQL Support

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Inspect Members and Hierarchy Windows• Now even works when caret is on a Java class for which no source code

available

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Spring Framework Support• Builds on the original spring netbeans module @

http://spring-netbeans.sourceforge.net

• Bundled Spring Framework 2.5 library

• Wizards for XML configuration files and Spring Web MVC controllers

• Multiple configuration files can be arranged into groups

• Hyperlinking of bean and Java class names

• Code completion of bean names and Java classes and properties

• Refactoring of Java classes (find usages, rename, move, safe delete)

• Spring Web MVC framework support in the web project, making it easy to generate a skeleton Spring Web MVC application

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Ruby Rails 2.0 Support• Rails 2.0 support (and in the next milestone, Rails 2.0 will be bundled)

• New Platform Manager in the Tools menu

• Tasklist integration of hints and errors

• Many new quickfixes

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Mercurial Support• Mercurial Support

> Distributed Versioning System> Plugin for Mercurial Versioning System Added to NB> Netbeans sources migrated from CVS to Mercurial (HG)

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UI Enhancements • Window System

> small semi-transparent image is shown when dragging a window

> in-active floating windows are transparent

> floating window snap to each other and to screen edges

> palette visibility is now per-document type

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UI Enhancements• Plugin Manager in background

> Now download & install plugins in background> Task progress is notified in the status line > Plugin Manager is non-modal dialog now

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UI Enhancements• Balloon like tool tip

> Mainly used to signalize that new updates are available.> The look isn't final. Any ideas for improvements?

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Other enhancements..• Now it is possible to integrate server plugin in to the NetBeans UI

without dependency on j2eeserver API.

• SailFin V1 Support through Add Server Instance Dialog and SIF container application exposure in services explorer

• WebSphere 6.0 & 6.1 support

• WAR, EJB and EAR development and deployment for WebSpehere

• 4 New Woodstock components in Palette

• Any jar item on project classpath can be associated with its Javadoc and sources too, and not just java libraries

• JSF CRUD Generator from JPA entity classes.

• Java Beans Support is Back

• Bean Patterns in Navigator, Generate Property enhanced,

• BeanInfo Editor is back.

• Javadoc Code Completion

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Other enhancements..• Incremental Parsing in Java Editor: Faster Code Completion

• Refactoring: safe deletion of a single package or recursive safe deletion of a folder.

• Ruby infrastructure and debugging improvements

• Visual Web / Woodstock on-demand attributing and performance enhancements

• Better Max OSX support for Mobility module, SVG custom components, etc.

• XML and Schema Editor imrpovements

• Axis2 Web Services Support

• Hibernate Support

• WSDL Editor Enhancements

• Integration of the SoapUI Netbeans plugin

• Support for Popular SaaS Services

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Angad Singhblogs.sun.com/angad

QUESTIONS?

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