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As with every industry, a critical element to the success in development lie with the choice of tools that teams and individuals use. NetBeans has been at the forefront of open source development tooling, and has been providing the community with a powerful yet easy to use IDE to maximize developer productivity. The next, much awaited and upcoming release of NetBeans, i.e. NetBeans 6.0 heralds new and improved features, ranging from a much improved editor, a brand new Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails support, improved Swing GUI development capability with beans binding and Swing Application Framework (JSR-296) support, a new Heap Walker with the Profiler, a new graphical WSDL editor, a new Composite Application Service Assembly editor and much, much more.

This session will walk you through the salient new and improved features, with demos, enabling you to realize the potential of the NetBeans 6.0 IDE to maximize you and your teams productivity.

Stream: Java

Paper: What's New in NetBeans 6.0?, What's New in NetBeans 6.0?

Ashwin Rao, a developer tools evangelist with the developer tools organization in Sun Microsystems, has been associated with developer tools for most parts of his career. He also holds the dual responsibility for building the NetBeans partner ecosystem. Prior to moving to Australia as an evangelist and partner program manager, he was the product line manager for the Sun Java Studio Enterprise product based in the US. Ashwin started his career as a developer in the defense industry working on developing real time software for command and control systems. He has also held various technical positions in Baan, including that of a developer / team lead in a development group at Baan working on the next generation ERP platform and tools, before joining Sun.