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Titolo: NetBeans IDE 3.2 released

NETBEANS IDE VERSION 3.2 RELEASED
The new release of the NetBeans IDE, version 3.2, is available for
download at
 
http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html
NetBeans is an open-source, extensible integrated development
environment written in the Java. Currently it supports Java
development, but its architecture lends itself to supporting 
other languages as well. It will run on any platform with a 
Java 2 (1.2.2 or greater) SDK installed, such as:
  -Linux
  -Windows 9x, NT, 2000 and ME
  -Mac OS-X
  -Solaris
  -OpenVMS 
  -HP-UX
  -OS/2
NetBeans is the open-source base upon which Sun's Forte for 
Java IDE is built.  The next Forte for Java release will be based on
NetBeans 3.2.
NetBeans 3.2 incorporates many new features, including
  - MDI support - choose between Single Document Interface (SDI - lots
    of windows on the desktop) and Multiple Document Interface (MDI -
    all windows of the IDE live in a single window) or a mixture of
    both
  - Setup Wizard - enables you to configure the IDE on the first
    start, enabling or disabling modules
  - Ant 1.3 with the Ant module
  - Debugger - Loaded classes view to display a hierarchy of all
    loaded classes, providing the ability to inspect classloaders,
    methods, fields and values
  - New Module Wizard - for those who want to extend NetBeans to
    support new technologies, this provides support for building a
    NetBeans Module
  - External browser module - use any web browser to view 
    documentation and test web applications, not just the built-in
    browser
and there are many enhancements to existing features that make this 
release worth a look.  For details on these, see
 
http://www.netbeans.org/articles/releases/3.2/WHATS_NEW.html
Some of the basic features of the IDE are
  - Compile/Execute/Debug on any JDK platform (not necessarily the one
    you're running the IDE in)
  - Built in CVS support implemented in pure Java
  - Visual form designer for designing Swing and AWT graphical user 
    interfaces - particularly nice support for GridBagLayout
  - Syntax highlighting editor with code completion, abbreviations and
    more
  - JSP and Servlet support Tomcat integration
  - Multisession, multithreaded debugging
  - Javadoc support to install, view, search and generate Javadoc
    documentation
  - Jar support transparent support for creating, reading and writing
    jar filesystems
For screenshots and info, see 
http://www.netbeans.org
NetBeans is freely redistributable under the Sun Public License 
(a variant of the Mozilla Public Licence).  NetBeans has a highly 
modular design, and is increasingly popular throughout the industry 
as a "tools platform" for integrating third party development tools 
such as debuggers, UML modelling tools, etc.  For a list of some 
of the companies building either open source or commercial 
extension modules for NetBeans, see
 
http://www.netbeans.org/third-party.html
The source code is available via anonymous cvs at 
cvs.netbeans.org
.
If you're using Mac OS X, check out the Mac OS-X HowTo page at:
 
http://www.netbeans.org/articles/mac.html

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