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October 2005
New NetBeans Tutorial From Brazil : How To Create A Plugin Very Easily
Monday, 31 October 2005 7:37 A GMT-08
Edgar Silva's blog has a nice tutorial (2 Flash files) showing how to create a NetBeans Module/Plugin. He shows how easy it is to create plugins for NetBeans. As someone comments, "Too Easy".
New NetBeans Tutorial : Building A Module and Registering as a New Category in the Options Panel
Sunday, 30 October 2005 12:03 P GMT-08
Geertjan has made available a tutorial on how to extend the NetBeans Options Window. He shows how to add a new catagory in the category panel and a new panel with the specifics of your new category.
Java Desktop System (JDS) Released to OpenSolaris : Sources and Build Instructions Are Available
Friday, 28 October 2005 6:18 P GMT-08
The sources for the Java Desktop System can now be found on the OpenSolaris site as well as the build instructions. The Java Desktop System is a secure and comprehensive enterprise desktop. Check it out.
Not To Late To Sign Up For Free Java Web Services Programming Class
Friday, 28 October 2005 2:25 P GMT-08
You will probably be kicking yourself if you don't grab the opportunity to get in on Sang Shin's free and excellent Web Services Programming with Passion class. It's still not too late (only two days into it and it is online). Read more for details.
A Single Menu Click To Create a JNLP Application - NetBeans IDE 5.0 Beta
Friday, 28 October 2005 11:24 A GMT-08
Yow! NetBeans 5.0 IDE keeps looking better and better. A single click to Java WebStart your RCP application. Roumen's Weblog has a nice piece on Java WebStarting an application built ontop of the NetBeans Rich Client Platform. Check it out.
Maven and NetBeans
Friday, 28 October 2005 10:55 A GMT-08
Robert Cooper has written his experiences with using NetBeans and Maven. He is using Mavenide and has lots of good things to say about the NetBeans Maven plugin.
NetBeans Collaboration Project : A Tutorial - StockTrader Collablet
Wednesday, 26 October 2005 8:29 P GMT-08
One of the absolutely killer features of NetBeans that is severely lacking in Eclipse, is developer collaboration. I'm talking real code-aware developer collaboration that includes a free collaboration server. Check out the collablet tutorial.
NetBeans List of Books
Wednesday, 26 October 2005 4:20 P GMT-08
There is a nice list of books that use NetBeans or are about NetBeans. Lots of good new stuff.
Microsoft Innovation (direct from BlueJ) ?
Tuesday, 25 October 2005 9:29 A GMT-08
Were you wondering how Microsoft innovates ? Check this out.
NetBeans Refactoring : Tutorials and How To Contribute Your Own
Monday, 24 October 2005 6:59 P GMT-08
If you are getting started using NetBeans and want to learn about refactoring- take a look at this article on refactoring in NetBeans 4.1. It's a explains the refactoring facilities in NetBeans 4.1. NetBeans 5.0 adds more ... check it out
Java WebStart and Pack200
Monday, 24 October 2005 1:12 P GMT-08
James Todd has a very nice success story where he deployed the combination (WebStart and 29 Seconds) and found it to be extremely useful. More...
Jini Community Meeting in Chicago : Presentations and the Next Generation of Jini and Rio
Friday, 21 October 2005 9:31 P GMT-08
Check out the presentations and the new software. The 9th Jini Community meeting took place in Chicago. I am increasingly seeing more Jini and some of the implementations have been spectacularly successful such as Orbitz Jini work.
OpenOffice 2.0 Released
Thursday, 20 October 2005 8:59 A GMT-08
OpenOffice
2.0 is now available.
Lots of new features, such as : OpenOffice.org now
uses the open standard OASIS OpenDocument XML format as the default
file format, uses multi-pane views, lots of new CustomShapes (similar
to Microsoft's Auto
PDF/Multimedia versions of JavaONE 2005 San Francisco Talks Now Freely Available
Wednesday, 19 October 2005 7:27 A GMT-08
Great news. The presentations in both PDF and multimedia (meaning audio and presentation) are available at the JavaOne site.
Evans Data Survey : Swing UI Toolkit Passes WinForms ; Looks Like The Swing Party is in High Gear
Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:59 P GMT-08
The latest Evans Survey confirms the Java Swing renaissance I have been talking about - Java Swing had 47% use and moved past WinForms as the dominant GUI development toolkit! It grew by 27% since fall 2004. Very cool.
Learn Java and NetBeans - New Book : Simply Java
Monday, 17 October 2005 2:32 P GMT-08
Here is a new Java book, Simply Java. It does not overwhelm new users with too many things and more importantly it allows new users to learn Java and NetBeans at the same time thus making the IDE a natural part of the developing software.
Tokyo and Toronto - it's your turn. NetBeans World Tour Tokyo - Nov 7th and Toronto - December 5th
Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:28 A GMT-08
NetBeans Day Toronto is coming soon - December 5th to be exact. Right after NetBeans Day Japan on November 7th. Be there - it will be alot of fun. I'll be in Tokyo - hope to see you there.
Four New NetBeans Flash (French Language) Tutorials and a New Forum
Saturday, 15 October 2005 8:42 P GMT-08
Vincent Brabant has unleashed four new NetBeans Flash tutorials adding to the previous six tutorials. These tutorials are very nice Flash demos that even non-French speaking developers can learn from. Check them out.
NetBeans Rich Client Platform : A New Tutorial
Friday, 14 October 2005 4:03 P GMT-08
With the release NetBeans 5.0 Beta the NetBeans Rich Client Platform is quite simply hot. Turning the heads even of the hardest core Eclipse developers.Tim Boudreau has created a new tutorial that shows how to build a NetBeans RCP app. Check it out.
Interview with JCP's Ono Kluyt
Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:44 P GMT-08
Ono Kluyt, senior director of the JCP was recently interviewed.
JBoss and NetBeans : A New "Getting Started" Guide Available
Thursday, 13 October 2005 8:18 A GMT-08
There is a new NetBeans quick start guide, Using NetBeans with the JBoss Getting Started Guide. This article will show you how to use the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with the JBoss application server. It is intended as a compani
Two New NetBeans Plug-ins : Maven 2 and Substance Plugins
Thursday, 13 October 2005 7:33 A GMT-08
A week ago, when the Google search plugin was created in sixteen minutes I commented that NetBeans new plug-in architecture is allowing new NetBeans plug-ins to be created quickly. A week later, some more examples, here are two of the latest plug-i
Swing Bits : JRibbon, Menu Item Alignment and Mustang
Wednesday, 12 October 2005 9:10 P GMT-08
An interesting thread on Kirill Grouchnikov's Substance and JRibbon works, an article on menu item alignment and a preview of Mustang aesthetics.
Ask The Experts : NetBeans Mobility Pack
Tuesday, 11 October 2005 4:11 P GMT-08
It you have a question on NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0 Beta - you can now ask it and get an answer from Mobility Pack experts. The Ask the Expert session ends on the 14th of October - so get your questions in now.