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Friday Nov 28, 2008

Top Eight, Non Java, Netbeans 6.5 Features

CSS editor: with syntax highlighting, code completion and preview.
HTML editor with auto completion, syntax highlighting, basic drag and drop
CVS, Subversion, Mercurial integration: I use it e.g. to synchronize the chapters of my current book with oreilly.
JavaScript editor / debug support
Favorites: The ability to browse the file system and edit files. NB can be used as a generic editor.
Services: Great database viewer with paging, inline editing etc.
UML support (additional 7MB plugin): really good tool for creating overview diagrams etc. I used it to illustrating my recent books and articles. I saved a lot of time :-).
Java FX support (additional plugin): compiling, debugging, auto completion, draggable applets, web start etc.
Diff functionality: you can diff any files you like. [I forgot this point in the origin post :-)].

...and Groovy, Grails, PHP, Scala, Python support - I do not use them, however, in my current projects.

Posted at 09:19AM Nov 28, 2008 by Adam Bien in Netbeans | Kommentare[9]

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Kommentare:

Hi Adam,

where can I get the Netbeans 6.5 JavaFX Plugin? I have searched for it in the plugin manager, but I was unable to find it. Is there a separate download available somewhere?

Carsten

Gesendet von CarstenSchlipf am November 28, 2008 at 10:50 AM CET #

Carsten,

go there: http://javafx.com/htdocs/downloadpage.html

But wait until December, 4 :-)

You are right - Java FX is available for NB 6.1 right now only. I didn't tried it with 6.5 yet.

Gesendet von Adam Bien am November 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM CET #

nice , i have tried it , but it didnt do any code completion and preview for inline CSS :( i hopped that if that is there in netbeans i will totally move to it

Gesendet von Ali am November 28, 2008 at 05:31 PM CET #

@Ali,

I tried it again. In my case it works either in case of embedded CSS, as well as CSS files. Auto-Completion works in both cases. (I need this feature in my current project...)

regards,

adam

Gesendet von Adam Bien am November 28, 2008 at 06:09 PM CET #

really, i think i will re-instull it cause if this thing works it will do a lot of good to me

thanks

Gesendet von Ali am November 29, 2008 at 04:57 AM CET #

Hi, what document editor do you use for your work with O'Reilly?

Gesendet von John O'Conner am December 01, 2008 at 07:19 PM CET #

John,

I'm using Netbeans with emacs bindings :-).

...just kidding -> Word 2007.

adam