Netbeans 6 available

Netbeans, the cross-platform (Linux, Solaris, Mac, Windows) IDE and development platform built by Sun on the Java platform, and initiallly focusing on Java development, but now also actively supporting Ruby and Ruby on Rails (and their equivalent on the Java platform powered by JRuby) and C/C++, has reached version 6. It is now available in several bundles, each with a specific focus: Web and Java EE (with Glassfish and Tomcat part of the bundle), Mobility, Java SE, Ruby, C/C++. The complete bundle, with everything included, is also available.

During the development phase of this release, Netbeans has received positive press when compared to Eclipse, but also for its first-class Ruby support with completion and refactoring.

And as mentioned above, it is also a platform on which you can build your own rich applications.

Time to get it and check it for yourself!