Kuldip Oberoi's Blog

We congratulate the Eclipse community on the upcoming Ganymede Simultaneous Release.

The NetBeans community has always been focused on a simple goal- to provide a superior development environment that assists users in creating high-quality applications in less time. With 80% user growth in the past 12 months and numerous industry accolades, including the Jolt Award for Best Development Environment and Developer.com’s Best Development Tool recognition, the hallmark ease-of-use quality within the NetBeans IDE is making progress towards this goal. From SOA functionality, including the Composite Application Service Assembly Editor and BPEL and XSLT Designers, to the Swing GUI Builder (formerly Project Matisse), the NetBeans IDE provides numerous visual editors to simplify desktop, web, enterprise, and mobile application development. Add in the Database Explorer, and n-tier development has never been easier.

While being a leader in the Java community, the NetBeans IDE has extended its ease-of-use functionality to other languages including Ruby/JRuby, C/C++, JavaScript, and with the recent arrival of NetBeans IDE 6.1, a preview version of PHP tooling. Combined with functionality provided by NetBeans partners, such as iReport (graphical report tool) from JasperSoft and codeBeamer (ALM solution) from Intland Software, NetBeans users have a complete, productive, environment.

With the advent of Ruby/JRuby support in recent NetBeans releases, we have received a lot of encouraging feedback with our entry into dynamic language tooling. From NetBeans to Glassfish to OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun works to provide a superior systems-based platform for developers to deliver their innovations.

We’re just getting started with Ruby and will shortly be announcing a NetBeans community effort around another dynamic language- so stay tuned!