Today the Netbeans team released Netbeans 6.0. Earlier in the year 6.0 was dual licensed under GPL and CDDL . Version 6 comes a little more than a year after 5.5 and includes a number of significant enhancements including:

Editor Improvements



Smarter code completion

Highlights

Better Navigation and Inspection

Live Templates and Surround Functionality

Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails Support



Project support including Gems and RSpec

Advanced Ruby Editing

ActiveRecord Code Completion

Ruby Debugger

Ruby on Rails Support

Profiling



Profiler integrated into NetBeans IDE

Compare Memory Snapshots

Heap Walker

JMeter Integration

Dynamic Attach on JDK 1.6

Web and Java EE



Built-in visual design for web applications

Visual page flow editing

Enhanced JavaScript support

Enhanced web services support

Support for Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces components

Mobility



New Integrated UI for CLDC/MIDP and CDC development

New game builder

New Visual Mobile Designer

Re-written JSR-172 stub compiler

SOA



Artifacts for service composition and assembly

Graphical WSDL editor

XSLT editor to edit transformations

Tooling support for binding components

Java EE Web Service project support

The PDF based Netbeans Magazine has also released a 62 page issue dedicated to Netbeans 6.0. InfoQ is publishing an ongoing series detailing the new Netbeans Ruby support.

