Open Source IDE for Java

BANGALORE: The award-winning NetBeans IDE provides a pure Java technology development environment for Windows, Linux, the Solaris Operating System or Mac OS X. The demand for NetBeans 3.6, the most current version of the NetBeans software, underscores the popularity of the IDE, with approximately 40,000 downloads of its Early Access version since its release in February 2004.

The NetBeans IDE version 3.6 provides a broad variety of functionality that accelerates the development of advanced Web-based applications, desktop graphical interfaces and mobile clients. This new release can enhance developer productivity and provides continued support for the latest Java standards.

"NetBeans provides the developer community with a highly productive tool for creating applications targeted to many different areas of the Java platform," said Steve Wilson, Director of NetBeans Technology. "It's exciting to see that the Sun Java Studio Creator product, which just entered Early Access, is already leveraging key pieces of technology that are part of the NetBeans 3.6 Platform in order to provide a new class of powerful Java developer tools."

With the NetBeans IDE 3.6, NetBeans.org and Sun Microsystems have made significant enhancements to this popular IDE for the Java platform. Whether building Java technology-based components, Web-based applications, rich desktop clients or mobile applications, NetBeans IDE 3.6 includes the following new features and functionality:

• A new windowing system, providing native look and feel


• Enhanced navigation and workflow


• Two-tier Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)TM 1.4 support (servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specification)


• Improved JSP specification debugging with JSR 45 support


• Available bundled with Sun Java System ApplicationServer, Platform Edition 8


• Available bundled with Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)TM 1.4.2


• Support for J2SE 1.5 beta version


• Code editor enhancements such as Smart Brackets and Code Folding


• Improved online help with JavaHelpTM 2.0 integration tool