A selection of news highlights from netbeans.org, opensource IDE and application backplane http://www.netbeans.org/index.html en webmaster@netbeans.org (NetBeans webmaster) http://www.netbeans.org/images/v5/nb-logo.gif http://www.netbeans.org/index.html 110 30 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:11:18 +0100 http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1313 NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.5! Download NetBeans IDE 6.5 NetBeans IDE 6.5 offers simplified and rapid development of web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with PHP, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and Groovy. New features include a robust IDE for PHP, JavaScript debugging for Firefox and IE, and support for Groovy and Grails. The release also delivers a number of enhancements for Java, Ruby on Rails, and C/C++ development. Java highlights include: built-in support for Hibernate, Eclipse project import, and compile on save. Combining excellent out of the box experience, compelling features, and a great plugin ecosystem, NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a must-download for all developers. NetBeans IDE 6.5 is currently available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese. There are several community contributed localization efforts underway to support additional languages. Join the efforts today. More information about NetBeans IDE 6.5: NetBeans IDE 6.5 Features NetBeans IDE 6.5 Tutorials and Documentation Guided Video Tour of NetBeans IDE 6.5 As always, we welcome and encourage feedback about your experience using the NetBeans IDE. Share your thoughts on our mailing lists and forums; if you blog about NetBeans add your blog to Planet NetBeans. NetBeans is now on Twitter! Follow us at twitter.com/netbeans to get the latest news and information, ask questions and engage with the NetBeans team. NetBeans IDE: Development Simplified! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1311 NetBeans has been nominated in five categories for the 2009 Developer.com Product of the Year Awards! Developer.com Nomination Page NetBeans tools are up for awards in the following categories: Development Tool of the Year: NetBeans Platform Development Utility of the Year: NetBeans Profiler Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in of the Year: NetBeans Mobility Pack for Connected Device Configuration (CDC) 5.5 Java Tool or Add-in of the Year:NetBeans IDE Open Source Tool of the Year: NetBeans Cast your vote today for NetBeans and help us deliver another win! Voting ends Monday, December 15, 2008. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1312 CollabNet will be performing datacenter maintenance on Friday night PST. The netbeans.org site will be mostly unavailable during the 4-hour maintenance window. The outage will occur between: Fri 14th Nov 21:00 - Sat 15th Nov 01:00 PST Sat 15th Nov 06:00 - Sat 15th Nov 10:00 CET Sat 15th Nov 08:00 - Sat 15th Nov 12:00 MSK All services will be impacted; though it will not impact servers hosted outside CollabNet's datacenter (including hg.netbeans.org, bits.netbeans.org, and www.planetnetbeans.org). We apologise in advance for any inconvenience. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100