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February 2007
Cutting Edge : Facelets in NetBeans
Wednesday, 28 February 2007 3:07 P GMT-08
Facelets are now supported on NetBeans IDE. The Facelet project, nbfaceletssupport, provides support for Facelets in NetBeans. More...
Bits : State of Swing from Chet Haase, Project Lightbulb, jRuby on NetBeans
Tuesday, 27 February 2007 10:52 P GMT-08
Three bits- a nice interview with Chet Haase which covers alot of territory related to Swing and client-side deployment, building a jRuby app using NetBeans and finally Project Lightbulb's efforts bringing federated identity to interpreted languages.
Safari Online : Rough Cut of the New NetBeans Platform Book
Tuesday, 27 February 2007 8:41 P GMT-08
Check it out - the rough cut of Rich Client Programming : Plugging into the NetBeans Platform is now available on Safari Online.
Developing Web Applications Using Sun Java Studio Creator IDE
Tuesday, 27 February 2007 3:20 P GMT-08
There a comprehensive developer's guide for building web applications using Sun Java Studio Creator 2. More...
Antonio's Kitchen : Building An IDE With The NetBeans Platform (Updated)
Monday, 26 February 2007 7:51 P GMT-08
Antonio has added a new chapter in his great NetBeans platform resource. In the latest chapter he shows how to embed external libraries (such as interpreter) into your application. If you haven't seen this, you should check it out. More...
Quick Bit : A NetBeans Visual Database Explorer
Monday, 26 February 2007 9:30 A GMT-08
There is a how-to create a visual database explorer. Very nice views of your database. More...
Chapter Available from Rich Client Programming : Plugging in to the NetBeans Platform
Sunday, 25 February 2007 11:03 P GMT-08
A chapter from the upcoming NetBeans RCP book is available. Chapter 2 on Modular Programming. More...
NetBeans 6 M7 Looking Good
Sunday, 25 February 2007 10:41 P GMT-08
I'm looking at NetBeans 6 M7 and things look very good. The icons are okay, Ruby is there, language extensions there and much more. I am starting to look at using the language extensions.... More...
Sun Tech Days India : 10,000 Developers, Largest Developer Event in India
Sunday, 25 February 2007 9:55 P GMT-08
If Sun Tech Days India is a bellwether - the rumbling sound you hear isn't an earthquake - it is Sun gaining extreme momentum. The Hindu, India's largest newspaper - "This was by far the largest gathering ever, of Indian `techies'.." More...
NetBeans UML Modeling : Beta 3 Available, UML Update Center, Lots of Resources
Sunday, 25 February 2007 5:53 P GMT-08
The latest UML Modeling Beta 3 is available for NetBeans. Check out all the resources - a daily builds Update Center, memory configurations, project site, tutorials, flash demos and more.
New Articles/Tutorials and Presentation : jMaki Has Moved into High Gear
Sunday, 25 February 2007 1:36 A GMT-08
jMaki has made rapid progress. Lots of new tutorials and a very good presentation from Javapolis. More...
NetBeans : "Visual Basic" Approachibility to Java, Platform Revolution
Saturday, 24 February 2007 5:52 P GMT-08
Two blogs offer perspectives on NetBeans. In one that looks at various NetBeans features the author points to features and "Visual Basic" approachibility to Java. In the other a developer talks about moving to the NetBeans platform. More....
Friday's Gadget Diversion : Asus Super-Thin Smartphone, Samsung's New Laptop, Flow Map Layout
Saturday, 24 February 2007 2:01 A GMT-08
It is Friday again (actually Saturday.. oops). There are some new and pretty cool gadgets. Asus has a super-thin smartphone full of features they are working on. Samsung's has hot new laptop and of course, there is the Flow Map Layout code. More..
Cutting Edge : jRuby Support in NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7
Friday, 23 February 2007 1:48 P GMT-08
Check it out - NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7 contains support for jRuby. More...
New Swing Article : How To Write A Custom Swing Component
Friday, 23 February 2007 12:54 A GMT-08
A new article on writing custom Swing components. Check it out.
Quick Bits : Gartner On Sun Growing Fast, Grails Conference, Great JXMapViewerApplet
Friday, 23 February 2007 12:23 A GMT-08
Three quick bits - Gartner has some interesting server growth numbers and the Sun is shining, there is a new Grails conference coming up with lots of great speakers and Joshua Marinacci has blogged about a great JXMapViewerApplet. More...
Ask-The-Expert Transcript : Java Plug-In
Thursday, 22 February 2007 7:46 P GMT-08
he Ask the Experts this month covered Java Plug-In Technology. More...
WSJ 2006 Innovation Award Gold Winner : DTrace and the Trouble-shooting of Systems
Thursday, 22 February 2007 1:58 P GMT-08
If you missed it, the Wall Street Journal gave awards for innovation for 2006. There were many worthy entries including inhalable insulin powder, lightweight solar energy panels and more. DTrace won it. Wow! I missed this. More...
Trend Spotting : Swing, SWT and the Unbelievable Lightness of Toolkits
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 9:33 P GMT-08
Daniel Spiewak has sparked discussion of SWT and Swing in two articles and the current state of Swing, SWT and Java suggest that his topics reveal what has become increasingly obvious. Swing is not simply doing fine, it is dominating. More...
Quick Bits : Struts Basics, Building/Consuming Java Web Services
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 4:07 P GMT-08
Two new tutorials - one on Struts Basics and the other on building and consuming a web service. More....
NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7 Available with New Features
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 11:47 A GMT-08
NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7 is now available with lots of new features. Note that this milestone like previous milestones of NetBeans 6.0 is an early access version. More...
Cutting Edge : JOGL and the Bloom Effect
Tuesday, 20 February 2007 8:36 P GMT-08
Check out Romain's blog - he shows how to build a bloom effect which is used widely in the video game world. More...
Eclipse to NetBeans and More...
Monday, 19 February 2007 10:51 P GMT-08
Some nice reading including an account of an Eclipse to NetBeans jump, predictions for 2007 and more...
New Plugin : Vi Editor Plugin
Sunday, 18 February 2007 11:25 A GMT-08
Wow! Finally! Available now! The long-awaited, often-asked-for Vi plug-in for NetBeans. This is very cool. More...
New Article (Part 2) : New and Updated Desktop Features in Java SE 6 (Part 2)
Sunday, 18 February 2007 11:13 A GMT-08
There is a new article which is part 2 to the Java SE 6 article which further describes a number of the features available in Java SE 6. More....