NetBeans 6.9 Supports PHP Zend, Ruby On Rails 3.0, JavaFX 1.3, Spring 3.0 & more…

The new NetBeans 6.9 Beta release boasts of 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.

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”

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Click to download NetBeans 6.9 Beta. The final release of NetBeans 6.9 is planned for June 2010.