Feature Highlights


PHP


  • PHP Editor (Code completion, syntactic and semantic codehighlighting)
  • Support for heredoc notation and PHTML
  • Debugging using Xdebug
  • Generators for MySQL database code snippets




JavaScript and Ajax


  • JavaScript Editor and Debugger
  • JavaScript Library Manager
  • Yahoo UI, Woodstock, jQuery, Dojo, Scriptaculous, Prototypelibraries
  • Improved CSS Editor




Java EE & Web Development


  • Enhanced support for Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSF CRUDgenerator, JPA (Java Persistence API)
  • Create RESTful web services from database tables or fromJPA entities
  • Drag and drop SaaS services into PHP files
  • SQL Editor Improvements (code completion, save/recallqueries, and more)
  • Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization for Java Web projects
  • Automatic Deploy on Save




Groovy and Grails


  • Develop pure Groovy apps or use Groovy in Java SE projects
  • Groovy editor (code completion, highlighting, and more)
  • Grails web application framework
  • Open existing Grails applications without adding metadata




Ruby and Rails


  • New Test Runner interface for displaying test results
  • Rake improvements: Rake Runner and a pre-generated Rake file
  • Debugger: Conditional breakpoints and catchpoints
  • Ruby projects accept JVM options from command line




GlassFish v3 Prelude for Web Development


  • Modular, OSGi based architecture
  • Small footprint, fast startup and deployment
  • Support for scripting, including JRuby




C/C++


  • Improved code completion, error highlighting, and semantichighlighting
  • Call graph, Memory window
  • Remote development
  • Packaging of application as tar files, zip files, or SVR4packages





Java ME


  • New project wizard for adding custom components to theVisual Designer Palette
  • New SVG UI components in the enhanced SVG Composer enablerich UI design
  • New Data Binding Custom Components in the Visual DesignerPalette
  • Upgraded obfuscation tool to ProGuard 4.2 and testframework to JMUnit 1.1.0





Java SE


  • Multi-threaded Java debugging
  • Java Swing GUI Builder: TreeModel Editor for JTrees
  • Automatic Compile on Save
  • Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization





IDE Tools and Usability


  • One QuickSearch shortcut for IDE actions, files, options, and docs
  • Support for Windows UNC paths (shared network folders)