NetBeans IDE 8.0 Beta released

Already a couple of months ago, the Beta version of the wonderful NetBeans IDE development environment was released quietly and without hype.



Let me remind you that NetBeans is an advanced development environment that allows you to develop applications in languages ​​such as PHP, C / C ++, Python, JavaScript, and even Ada.



Although the NetBeans IDE is a free development environment and the project is developed by a community of enthusiastic developers, it is not inferior in quality and capabilities to a commercial IDE.

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Out of the box is supported:

• refactoring and profiling
• highlighting syntax
• autocompletion on the fly
• management of all popular version control systems

What's new in NetBeans 8.0 Beta?

• Java SE 8 support
• Java ME 8 support
• Expanded HTML5 Support
• Tomcat 8.0 support
• PHP 5.5 support
• Many improvements throughout the IDE

Editor

• indent guides
  
  Finally, dashed lines appeared, allowing to better distinguish the blocks of code separated by tabs. They are displayed by default. Color can be changed in the IDE settings.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• new code hints
• link to external documentation, now active in the documentation window

Java

• JDK8 support
• Java SE Embedded and Java ME Embedded 8 support
• Java editor improvements: many new code hints, javadoc as hints
• improved integration with JavaFX Scene Builder

Java ee

• new PrimeFaces code generators
• Tomcat 8.0 integration
• TomEE integration
• various improvements

Php

• PHP 5.5 support
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• support PSR-0 and PSR-1 standards
• PHP CS Fixer support
• improvements for Twig, Latte and Neon
• Composer support in the Project Creation Wizard

C / C ++

• bread crumbs are added
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The GDB debugger console can now be used in command line mode. IDE will process commands and reflect debugger changes.

Platform

• new API for setting tabs editor for Windows systems
  
  
• new design user interface design team
• files in folders can now be sorted by extension
  
  
  
  
  
  

miscellanea

• improved profiler. Now it is available for embedded systems such as the Raspberry Pi
• Subversion 1.8 support and various improvements in Git and Mercurial support
• design change in the Project Groups interface
• various speed improvements
• improvements in the pop-up menu of search results: “Copy File Path” for several selected files, support for basic file operations, support for “Select in>”

HTML5

• Added support for remote debugging of Android 4.4 WebKit for Cordova 3.3+
• Grunt support added
• plugins available Avatar.js. After installing the plugin, you can create projects with Avatar.js

Javascript

• improved support for AngularJS
• support for code completion in Knockout templates
• support for new jQuery editor widgets and plugins
• JavaScript code debugging is now performed in Nashorn (JDK 8+)

It should be noted that the installers for OS Solaris are no longer supported. However, you can run IDE on this OS using zip archives instead of binary installers.



Although this is only Beta-version (release is expected only in April), but now you can try out the new version of IDE. As for the PHP version, I actively used it at work as the main IDE for a week and did not notice any problems.

Useful links:

• NetBeans 8.0 Beta Download Page
• Official NetBeans IDE 8.0 Beta Release Notes
• Details on the 8th version innovations (EN)

PS Do not judge strictly, this is my second article for a couple of years, I will be glad to accept corrections in a personal.