Skip to main content

NetBeans 7.0 Released

After nearly 6 months of beta testing, NetBeans 7.0 has been released and is now available for download from the NetBeans site.

As usual, the Java SE, Java EE, C/C++ and PHP packages are available for download together with a package that contains all NetBeans modules. Additional functionality can be added to any of the base packages using the buildin Plugin Manager.

NetBeans 7 provides many new features including:

  • Language support for Java SE 7 new features (JSR 344) available with the JDK 7 developer preview.

  • Enhanced integration with WebLogic, GlassFish and Oracle database.

  • Enhanced support for Swing GUI development

  • Maven 3 support

  • HTML 5 editing support.



To support NetBeans 7, a new plugin portal has also been released. The NetBeans team describe the new portal as using:
"modern web technologies; features powerful searching capabilities and improved performance; provides an optimized user interface; and has resolved many design drawbacks of its predecessor."

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

A Simple Makefile for a GTK/GTKMM Project

When compiling small applications, its fairly easy just to compile using g++ from the command line. If you’re compiling anything more complex than a single file, its probably easier to use a Makefile. This example Makefile demonstrates how to compile an application that uses the GTKMM library. NAME=my-app CFLAGS=-g -Wall -o $(NAME) GTKFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags --libs gtkmm-3.0` SRCS=main.cc myapp.cc CC=g++ # Do all all: main # Compile main: $(SRCS) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(SRCS) $(GTKFLAGS) # Clean clean: rm -f $(NAME) rm -f *.h~ rm -f *.cc~ rm -f Makefile~ rm -f *.glade~

Changing Default Search Provider in Firefox on Linux Mint

On Linux Mint, the default version of Firefox is installed and configured to allow the following search engines to be queried directly from the address bar: Yahoo! Startpage DuckDuckGo Wikipedia Mint defines these as the default available set of search engines based upon 3 criteria (funding to Linux Mint, privacy support and whether the search engine is non-commercial). Other search engines such as Google, Bing or Twitter, etc. can easily be added into the default version of Firefox however. To add a different search provider, browse to Search Engines At the bottom of the page, click on the icon of the requested search engine, then click on the ... button in the URL bar and select the Add Search Engine option. You then have the option to change the default search engine within Firefox preferences to your new choice.

Eclipse releases Ganymede

The Eclipse Foundation has  released  Ganymede, the latest annual release this time containing 23 Eclipse projects including the Eclipse IDE version 3.4. This latest version of the annual Eclipse release contains many new features including: Equinox P2  - a system to make installations and updated to Eclipse easier JSDT  - A new JavaScript editor Improved JavaScript support for the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools,  BIRT Graphical database query tools Improved support for Java EE 5 SOA support and many other features. Further information, inclusing webinars and demos can be found on the  project website  . This new release can be downloaded from the  Eclipse web site  .