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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 Editor and Debugger

          
• JavaScript Library Manager

          
• Yahoo UI, Woodstock, jQuery, Dojo, Scriptaculous, Prototype libraries

          
• Improved CSS Editor

        

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

          
• Automatic Deploy on Save

        

Groovy and Grails

          
• Develop pure Groovy apps or use Groovy in Java SE projects

          
• Groovy editor (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 SE

          
• Multi-threaded Java debugging

          
• Java Swing GUI Builder: TreeModel Editor for JTrees

          
• Automatic Compile on Save

        

IDE Tools and Usability

          
• One QuickSearch shortcut for IDE actions, files, options, and docs

          
• Support for Windows UNC paths (shared network folders)