The IDE will also come with a set of help tools that will suggest ways that a new Java 7 construct could improve a body of code. In prior versions of the language, "If you wanted to compare string values, you had to construct a nested 'if.else' statement to do that, which was, frankly, ugly," Mills said. One example is a revamped "switch" statement, which can now evaluate strings, in addition to numerical values. "Java 7 introduces a whole bunch of constructs that are specifically aimed at making the language more concise and providing a better developer experience," Mills said. With NetBeans 7, developers will get the chance to test out the new version of Java, formally named the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) version 7. Oracle estimates that NetBeans is downloaded about 550,000 times a month and has somewhere between 800,000 and 900,000 regular users.
"There has to be a degree of competition to help to keep driving the market forward." We want to provide support for those people to help Java grow and be more popular," Mills said. "The role of NetBeans is to acknowledge there is a huge Java user community out there who have no other relationship with Oracle at all. Since then, the company has redirected JDeveloper development to be more of a tool for enterprises to build Oracle Fusion-based applications, while maintaining NetBeans as a tool for the larger community of Java developers who may or may not use other Oracle software. Oracle already had its own Java IDE, JDeveloper.
Oracle acquired NetBeans as part of its 2010 purchase of Sun Microsystems.
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