Its been a while since I've announced any news about Netbeans but that is
because of the controverse which (IMO:) overshadowed the initial 6.0 release.
Being one of the many critics I didn't want to risk writing up negative critics
on a platform where they don't belong.

So, having that out of the way: Yesterday NetBeans 6.1 has been officially
released.

When you're new to the 6.x branch of Netbeans (or new to the entire platform)
you'll quickly notice that you're dealing with an IDE which has its roots fully
in Java but also reaches out to support many different other platforms. Because
this group is solely aimed at Java I am not including those features in my
announcement, but will merely say that Netbeans also includes supports for
C/C++, Javascript, Ruby and even PHP (PHP support is in beta stage).

Netbeans 6 has been completely rewritten from scratch in order to get a
platform which is better manageable and to make sure that the code doesn't
become a total mess. You can notice this from the way the IDE behaves (it tends
to boot faster and be more responsive) as well as some of the older bugs which
have re-surfaced.

Specific Java features which are supported are: