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In my previous blog I forgot to mention the most important benefit of Netbeans 6.5 - the ability to seamlessly mix Groovy and Java within the same project (zero developer effort required). Whilst this is a property of Groovy/JVM, Netbeans removes all the hassle of buildscripts, library management, classpaths, ever growing command lines, etc. The support for calling Groovy from Java is excellent - with full code completion (and includes things like automatic getter and setters you don’t need to write in Groovy).