Oracle’s new NetBeans IDE 7.2 to help developers write code quickly

By CBR Staff Writer | CBR | 26th July 2012

Release 7.2 provides code hints in the editor, offers immediate feedback and code inspections that can be run across projects

Oracle has introduced NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 7.2 to enable developers to create web, enterprise, desktop and mobile applications for the Java platform, PHP and C/C++. The new open source IDE is available for Windows, Mac, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and other Linux distributions.

NetBeans IDE 7.2 comes integrated with FindBugs, an open source Java-based static analysis tool which provides code hints in the editor, offering feedback and code inspections that can be run across projects, helping eliminating bugs early in the development lifecycle.

The new IDE is coupled with other editor enhancements such as a bookmark manager, code completion in the search bar, JPA code completion, hints and refactorings.

Release 7.2 features smarter project scanning that enables it to start smoothly and faster, while the new background scanning allows features such as Java editing to work immediately and the UI responsiveness is not blocked by I/O operations, improving performance up to 60%.

It also provides Interoperability with the early access release of JavaFX Scene Builder, allowing opening and visual editing of FXML files with Java FX Scene Builder.

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Geertjan’s Blog provides a wealth of information about NetBeans; blogger Geertjan Wielenga, listed the Top 10 New Features in NetBeans IDE 7.2 as follows:

• Static code analysis support, in particular, FindBugs integration.
• Smoother startup and faster project scanning.
• New, better, and faster tools throughout the Java Editor.
• Enhancements for Java EE developers, such as JPA code completion and PrimeFaces 3.2.
• Better JavaFX tools, in particular, JavaFX Scene Builder integration.
• Even more NetBeans love for Maven.
• Tools and templates for TestNG.
• New PHP frameworks integrated, together with more editor tools.
• Groovy & Grails faster and more tools.
• NetBeans C++ powered up and yet more support than before.

The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.

To download NetBeans IDE 7.2 please visit the NetBeans website or click this link.