OSGi
- Develop OSGi bundles with Maven
- Bundled Felix container
- Use OSGi bundles in a NetBeans RCP application
NetBeans Platform
- OSGi interoperability (developing and consuming OSGi bundles in Platform-based applications)
- Felix 2.0.3 OSGi support, experimental Equinox support
- Convert NetBeans modules into OSGi bundles and run them in an unmodified OSGi container
- Branding Editor for both Ant and Maven Platform-based projects
- NetBeans Platform-based applications generate installers for most common operating systems
- Enhanced support for consuming web services and connecting to databases
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JavaFX
- JavaFX Composer for form-like UI components with states and access to various data sources
- Added and improved editor hints, debugging, and refactoring
- Enhanced Palettes for JavaFX Shapes, Colors, Effects, and Charts
- Improved code formatting
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Java EE
- Support for Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) (JSR-299)
- Spring Framework 3.0 support
- Bundled GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.0.1
- Easy regeneration of JPA entities after database change
- REST web services support for RCP applications
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Java
- Java Debugger breakpoint grouping, debugger attach parameter history
- Support for annotation processors in the editor, configurable in the Project Properties
- New Applet and Web Start (JNLP) support
- Improved navigation in Stack Trace Analyzer and URLs, Go To Overridden/Implemented Method action
Web Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Refactoring and find usages for CSS and HTML-like languages
- Code completion and hyperlinking for id and class selector attributes
- Refactoring inline CSS styles
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Java Card
- Support for creating Java Card Connected 3 servlets, classic and extended applets
- Backward compatibility with Java Card 2.2.x and Java Card Classic
- Debugging, and multiple Java Card Platform/Device creation
- Alignment with Java Card Reference Implementation
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PHP
- PHP Zend Framework support
- "Overrides/Implements" and "Is Overridden/Implemented" annotations
- New formatter with many formatting rules
Ruby
- Ruby on Rails 3.0 support
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C/C++
- Unit test integration with C/C++ projects
- Enhanced remote development including remote file download and browsing
- Improved support of makefile targets and Fortran
- Improved hyperlink navigation between overridden methods and classes
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General
- Many more editor hints for Java and Ruby
- Spell checker support in the Editor
- Help menu item for reporting bugs and slowness against NetBeans IDE
- Support for multiple Kenai-based team servers (e.g. kenai.com and netbeans.org).
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