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NetBeans IDE 6.7 Features

Developing with Ajax

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Add rich functionality to your web applications using NetBeans Ajax support.

Editor Support for JavaScript, CSS, and PHP

Take advantage of full syntax highlighting, code completion, pop-up documentation, and error checking for JavaScript, CSS and PHP. The Editor recognizes JavaScript code in stand-alone JavaScript files as well as in HTML, RHTML, PHP, and JSP files (More about JavaScript...). The visual CSS editor allows you to edit CSS rules and preview the results.

NetBeans JavaScript Editor code completion

Visual Editor for Ajax-enabled JSF Applications

Built into the NetBeans Visual JSF framework is a collection of Java Server Faces-based, Ajax-enabled user interface components. Using these components, you can build consistent, accessible and dynamic web pages.

Using an Ajax-enabled component is like working with any other component in the IDE: Drag and drop the component, set properties, and customize server-side event handlers. This dynamic Ajax behavior is implemented via Project Dynamic Faces (DynaFaces).

NetBeans Ajax Dynamic Faces

Ajax Toolkit Integration

The JavaScript editor provides code completion and integrated documentation for popular Ajax toolkits such as jQuery, Script.aculo.us, Prototype, etc. Download your favorite JavaScript toolkits, copy the files into your project, and the editor will automatically recognize them.

NetBeans Integrated Yahoo documentation

Automatic Ajax with ICEfaces

ICEfaces is integrated with both the NetBeans visual JSF and Facelet editors, so you can build rich JSF applications using the ICEfaces Ajax-enabled component suite. ICEfaces provides Automatic Ajax to JSF applications so you can build pure JSF applications without the need to overlay additional Ajax behavior or do any JavaScript programming. Learn more about the ICEfaces Plugin for NetBeans IDE.

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Databases

The Database Explorer works with JavaDB (Derby), MySQL and PostgreSQL out of the box. The Explorer supports any relational database for which there is a JDBC driver, including Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PointBase, Sybase, Informix, Cloudscape, InstantDB, Interbase, Firebird, FirstSQL, Mckoi SQL, HSQLDB, Hypersonic SQL, Micrososft Access.

 

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NetBeans Database Explorer