Feature Highlights
PHP
- PHP Editor (Code completion, syntactic and semantic code highlighting)
- Support for heredoc notation and PHTML
- Debugging using Xdebug
- Generators for MySQL database code snippets
JavaScript and Ajax
- JavaScript Debugging on FireFox & Internet Explorer
- HTTP transaction monitoring
- Improved JavaScript and CSS Editor
- JavaScript Library Manager incl Yahoo UI, Woodstock, jQuery, Dojo, Scriptaculous, Prototype libraries
Java EE & Web Development
- Enhanced support for Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSF CRUD generator, JPA (Java Persistence API)
- Create RESTful web services from database tables or from JPA entities
- Drag and drop SaaS services into PHP files
- SQL Editor Improvements (code completion, save/recall queries, and more)
- Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization for Java Web projects
- Automatic Deploy on Save
JavaFX
- Create, test, debug, profile, and deploy JavaFX projects
- JavaFX editor with syntax highlighting, source navigation, code completion, code folding, javadoc pop-ups, and error detection.
- Live preview of visual elements
- Code snippet palette for transformations, effects and animations
Groovy and Grails
- Develop pure Groovy apps or use Groovy in Java SE projects
- Groovy editor with 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 semantic highlighting
- Call graph, Memory window
- Remote development
- Packaging of application as tar files, zip files, or SVR4 packages
Java ME
- New project wizard for adding custom components to the Visual Designer Palette
- New SVG UI components in the enhanced SVG Composer enable rich UI design
- New Data Binding Custom Components in the Visual Designer Palette
- Upgraded obfuscation tool to ProGuard 4.2 and test framework to JMUnit 1.1.0
Java Debugger
- New multi-threaded debugging with improved UI and work-flow
- Smart Step Into with method selection right inside expression
- Deadlock detection with visual indication
Java SE
- Automatic Compile on Save
- Improved Eclipse project import and synchronization
- Java Call Hierarchy
- Analyze Javadoc
- Swing GUI Builder can generate simple or fully qualified class names
IDE Tools and Usability
- CamelCase code completion
- Customize formatting settings per project
- One IDE-wide QuickSearch shortcut for files/symbols/types, IDE actions, options, and docs
Support for Windows UNC paths (shared network folders)
