With the release of version 7.3 of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the
IDE (integrated developer environment) so Java developers can more
easily build rich HTML5-based user interfaces for their mobile and Web
applications.
NetBeans 7.3 "allows developers to use the same IDE
[to compose in] HTML5 that they would use for building back-end
services that their Web and
mobile application development would connect to," said
Bill Pataky, Oracle vice president of product management of tools and
frameworks.
Increasingly, enterprise Java developers are using browsers as the
primary interface for their applications, so it was a natural choice to
expand the support for Web 2.0 technologies, Pataky said.
The new
version of the IDE, released Thursday, contains a number of new
features to aid in writing HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS (Cascading Style
Sheets) code. The IDE offers a full set of code completion capabilities
for these technologies, allowing the IDE to intuitively suggest the
remainder of a line of code that the developer is typing in.
The
IDE also makes debugging Web interfaces easier. Oracle now offers a
plug-in for the Google Chrome browser that can render a Web page as it
is being composed by the developer in the IDE. This feature uses the
WebKit remote debugging protocol.
source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-updates-netbeans-html5-213212