NetBeans

Before you know it, you'll be a very advanced user of the Java editor in NetBeans IDE.

These editors use black background color, so the default white background in NetBeans might be a bit too bright for some of you.

If you haven't used NetBeans in a while I'd strongly encourage you to check it out.

You might be able to figure out a GUI's structure by using a visual design tool (such as NetBeans Matisse).

Netbeans, like many large computer applications, uses a number of different windows to let you perform different tasks.

IT used development and deployment tools (like Eclipse, JBuilder, NetBeans), but business teams had no reason to use them.

The most interesting new development has been the introduction of two free, extensible open source IDEs: Netbeans and Eclipse.

Also, the chapter introduces an "API Review" process, which the NetBeans team is following to review API changes before integration.

It will certainly share code with our other tools but it will not just be some modules for NetBeans.

If you key code that uses relative namespace qualifiers, NetBeans displays a light bulb icon in the left-most code margin.

And if you then click the icon, NetBeans makes the code change for you.

This would make it possible to debug artifacts in a standard Java debugger such as jdb, Eclipse, or NetBeans.

You can find additional information about Ruby support in NetBeans on its wiki page.

I also anticipate plugin support in major IDEs like Eclipse or Netbeans, although this will come later.

But after working with NetBeans 6 over the last week, I have to say I am very impressed.

Building an IDE from scratch is a lot of work but, fortunately, there are two Java open source projects to help -- netBeans and Eclipse.

NetBeans also provides experimental support for Rspec.

VisualVM, being built on top of NetBeans, takes the plug-in concept much further.

The compiler is designed to work apart from an IDE, though we will obviously have great integration with NetBeans.

Since I am somewhat of a statistics junky, The UI Gestures Collector is perhaps my favorite improvement to NetBeans 6.

You can read the first two parts of the article which is an introduction to the NetBeans Ruby support here ( part 1, part 2).

We started making heavy use of annotations during the development of the next version of NetBeans IDE.

In addition, Eclipse supports more client-server connection types than Netbeans.

InfoQ: Can you discuss how your team conducted architecture and design reviews in NetBeans development project?

The fact that NetBeans IDE is free &open source is also a big plus, of course.

These are bundled in a zip file per chapter, and are aimed at being easily loaded and run using Netbeans.

At that time (2002-2003), Netbeans wasn't even close to Eclipse in terms of support for developing one's own language support.

He noted that support in the current version includes Netbeans 5. 5 and 6. 0 plugins as well as Glassfish deployment support of JRuby.

We will probably also add some FX support to the NetBeans GUI builder (formerly Matisse) but that is separate from the pure designer tool.

3rd Rail includes a number of features not found in Netbeans such as code completion of dynamic runtime methods.

What this means is that when NetBeans parsed the Java files it could not find all the library dependencies, so let's fix that.

Late last week Sun released Netbeans 6. 1.

This article is the final part in series of articles about NetBeans & Ruby.

It really lifts NetBeans IDE to a higher level, beyond an editor to a project management system