What's New in 6.9

NetBeans IDE 6.9 is a significant update to NetBeans IDE 6.8 and includes the following improvements:

• JavaFX Composer to simplify and visualize JavaFX development
• JavaFX SDK 1.3
• Support for Equinox and Felix OSGi frameworks in NetBeans Platform
• Spring Framework 3.0 library support
• Java Card^TM 3 Connected
• Rails 3.0 Beta support
• PHP Zend Framework support
• Support for JSR-299, Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI)
• Additional Enhancements are listed on the NetBeans IDE 6.9 New and Noteworthy page.

Note: The Java ^TM SE Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 is not supported on any platform for this release. You must have JDK 6.0 on your system to install and run NetBeans IDE 6.9.

For more about this release, see the NetBeans IDE 6.9 Release Information page.