It’s official NetBeans 6.1 is now in full release and available for download from NetBeans.org. I have not been keeping up so well with this version and so I’m a little out of the loop on all the changes but I understand that they have been working hard on improving the JavaScript capabilities, from what I can tell this is mostly in the intellisense. Looks like the same guy’s that worked on the awesome Ruby editor functionality have been working on improving the JavaScript editor this time around.

This release did remind me that I was going to take a look and see if I could get NetBeans to play nice with some of the JavaScript libraries out there and I never did, apologies to those who were waiting for me to pull my finger out.

Since 6.1 is supposed to improve JavaScript in NetBeans I shall have to take a look. The detailed feature list can be found here.

The official announcement from the NetBeans announcement email is:

NetBeans™ IDE 6.1 supports a wide range of open source scripting technologies and offers improved performance. This release extends language support beyond Java™ technology by providing a rich set of features for C/C++, JavaScript™ and the Ruby language, including Ruby on Rails.

NetBeans IDE 6.1 also contains all of the improvements made in 6.0 including: the new smarter editor, next generation of the ground-breaking GUI builder (formerly known as Project Matisse), visual mobile designer, integrated profiler, and Java™ EE 5 support.

One of the downloads available is an Early Access preview of support for PHP. Advance versions of new modules, such as a JavaScript debugger, support of ClearCase, AXIS, and Hibernate are available as separate plugins.

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