NetBeans adds languages

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Jan 31, 20071 min

The NetBeans 5.5 open source IDE has been gaining support for several additional languages. Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community on Wednesday will announce availability of the IDE for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Traditional Chinese. In addition, plans are under way to support several other languages, including Albanian, Azerbaijani, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian,

The NetBeans 5.5 open source IDE has been gaining support for several additional languages.

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community on Wednesday will announce availability of the IDE for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Traditional Chinese. In addition, plans are under way to support several other languages, including Albanian, Azerbaijani, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

Languages are being added as part of the NetBeans Translation Project.

Sun cited community participation in the translation efforts, with developers contributing from places such as Brazil and Taiwan. The company is sponsoring a NetBeans Day World Tour to promote the platform in places such as India, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and France.

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by Paul Krill

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