NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 Release Information

NetBeans IDE 7.3 empowers developers to create and debug rich web and mobile applications using the latest HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 standards. Developers can expect state of the art rich web development experience with a page inspector and CSS style editor, completely revamped JavaScript editor, new JavaScript debugger, and more. Additional highlights available in 7.3 include continued enhancements to the IDE's support for Groovy, PHP, JavaFX and C/C++.



NetBeans IDE 7.3 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.



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The latest available download is NetBeans IDE 7.3.1, which is an update to NetBeans IDE 7.3.



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NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 is an update to NetBeans IDE 7.3 and contains the following highlights:



Support for Java EE 7



Integration of recent patches

Documentation

Use the following to get started with NetBeans IDE 7.3:

New Feature Highlights

Java EE

Support for Java EE 7 with both Maven and Ant projects



Deployment to GlassFish 4



Deep support for major Java EE 7 specifications: JSF 2.2, JPA 2.1, JAX-RS 2.0, WebSocket 1.0 and more



Support for WebLogic 12.1.2 and JBoss 7.x



Java Persistence JPQL testing tool

Project Easel: HTML5 Application Development

HTML5 Application project with JavaScript testing support

JavaScript Editor significantly improved



Page inspector and visual CSS style editor



JavaScript Debugger



Embedded WebKit browser; deep integration with Chrome

Full Screenshot Java

Breadcrumbs: A new navigation bar shows the current embedding in the editor

Updated Show member and Show hierarchy views

Set of new hints and refactorings



Filters for Find Usages results



Effective POM editor tab in pom.xml editor

JavaFX

FXML/Scene Builder Support

JDK 7u6+ support on Windows, Mac and Linux

FXML editing greatly improved by providing accurate code completion, error marking and more

FXML Generate Controller action added on FXML files

PHP Parsers for Namespaced Annotations (Symfony 2, Doctrine 2, etc.)

Basic Composer Integration (Dependency Manager for PHP)

Twig Code Completion (with documentation)

Smarty Braces Matching for Related Tags

Smarty Parser Errors of Unmatched Tags

Groovy Groovy 2.0 integration

Support in Java EE projects

Groovy JUnit test support

Basic refactoring implemented (Find Usages, Rename for class type)



Profiler

Sampled memory profiling



CPU snapshots comparison



Support for Linux ARM machine



C/C++

Memory usage reduced by at least half for big projects



Parser speed improvements



Parser's index can be kept and relocated with project

NetBeans Platform

Options dialog contents filtering

New File / Open Recent File menu, and a new shortcut CTRL+ALT+T

Main toolbar shows new drop down list for overflow situations



Learn more about the features of this release on the NetBeans IDE 7.3 New and Noteworthy page.

Visit the NetBeans Release Roadmap.