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April 2005

DTrace + JVM Agents : Awesome Visibility Into Code Execution

Friday, 29 April 2005 1:28 P GMT-08

Solaris open source tool, DTrace, is nowing starting to be used in conjunction with Java. Recently, Sun engineers have started blogging on this topic recently. If you don't know what DTrace is - it is a very cool Solaris tool that allows deep

Chat : NetBeans 4.1 IDE, May 3rd 2005, 9:00 AM Pacific

Friday, 29 April 2005 12:00 A GMT-08

Now that NetBeans 4.1 IDE is out and available - the NetBeans team will be spending some time answering questions. Three key members of the team Judith Lilienfild (Senior Product Manager), Ludovic Champenois (Technical Lead) and Petr

TechSouth

Saturday, 23 April 2005 7:43 P GMT-08

I participated in a technology conference, TechSouth, in Lafayette, Louisiana this past week. I made my way to Lafayette and found it to be an enchanting city. This is my second visit to TechSouth. It happened to coincide with an Internat

NetBeans VisualGC Integration Module and NetBeans Profiler Milestone 6 Released

Friday, 22 April 2005 2:10 A GMT-08

More great additions to NetBeans. The VisualGC Integration Module is now available here. The VisualGC Integration module integrates the extremely useful VisualGC tool into the NetBeans IDE. Visual GC tool attaches to an instrumented HotSpot

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Release Candidate Now Available

Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:37 P GMT-08

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Release Candidate (RC) has now been released (info thanks to Roumen's blog). There are so many new features and performance gains - you should check it out here. You can check out the release notes to find out some more detai

Swing Pointers Updated : Gray Rect is dead, Java Desktop Live, etc.

Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

The biggest Swing news is that the big bad gray rect is dead. This has huge Swing performance implications for the Mustang release. Read about it Scott Violet's blog. One of the immediate tests was on NetBeans and it was an excellent performance

This Week: A Virtual Flood of NetBeans blog entries, tips and tutorials ( NetBeans Quick Links)

Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:03 A GMT-08

There has been a virtual flood of NetBeans-oriented tutorials, blog entries and tips. They cover a lot of territory and I have included them in an updated version of NetBeans Quick Tips . Below are a very small number of them to give y

NetBeans Software Day at JavaONE 2005

Friday, 15 April 2005 8:14 A GMT-08

I am lucky and will be at JavaONE 2005 this year. I plan on being also at NetBeans Software Day at JavaONE 2005 to see what's new. For those that are not aware there will be a NetBeans Software Day at JavaONE 2005. You can see the agenda

BLOG: "...I am not sure if I have any reason to go back to Eclipse now."

Friday, 15 April 2005 7:18 A GMT-08

This blog is what I am seeing more of and what I was referring to. Some at Eclipse.org may be sitting happily thinking thoughts like "the industry has spoken" and other such thoughts - but in the end it is about the dev

NetBeans Is Growing Fast, With NetBeans 4.1 Beta It is Revving Up to Grow Faster

Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

I read with interest and some amusement David Orme's blog. With regards to his comment about me being "hot and bothered" - I'm not hot and bothered - after all I'm not the one who has to fix all the SWT bugs. And as for Mi

NetBeans Quick Links -Updated-

Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:06 A GMT-08

NetBeans Quick Links -Updated- I have updated the NetBeans Quick Links. There are a number of new articles. The release of Netscape 4.0, 4.1 Beta and the increasing interest in and growth of NetBeans has resulted in many developers downloa

Article : IDE Wars : Has NetBeans 4.1 Eclipsed Eclipse ?

Tuesday, 12 April 2005 2:01 P GMT-08

A new article reviewing many of the changes in NetBeans examines some central questions in the debate. Unlike some articles - this article is actually written by an Eclipse developer who took the time to review carefully and compare

Eclipsed Again.

Monday, 11 April 2005 10:51 P GMT-08

NetBeans' big brother, Java Studio Enterprise 7, just won the EWeek Excellence Award for "Application Development" once again a NetBeans derivative has eclipsed competitors. This follows on the heels of multiple Developer.Com wins by

Bits and Pieces : J2EE 5.0 EA, JAX-Profiling, RPC 2.0 EA3, smallx, Safari, code search and HotSpot -updated-

Friday, 8 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

J2EE 5.0 Draft - Early draft of J2EE 5.0 (JSR 244) is now available. JAX-RPC 2.0 Early Draft 3 is available. The Portable Mini-App : Mortgage Calculator - Another Joshua Marinacci mini-app in applet and webstart form. Ne

Swing Pointers (A List of Swing URLs) Has Been Updated

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

Swing Pointers April 7 2005 Swing Pointers have been updated. They also are now aggregated with a new color scheme to let you now the new stuff () and the older stuff (). There is a considerable body of Swing/Java 2D works th

NetBeans 4.1 Quick Links

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

NetBeans Quick Links The release of Netscape 4.0, 4.1 Beta and the increasing interest in and growth of NetBeans has resulted in many developers downloading NetBeans and being pleasantly surprised. This is not the NetBeans of a scant

3D Looking Glass Project Development the Painless Way

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 1:36 P GMT-08

C.J. Hunt has a nice tutorial on building Project Looking Glass with NetBeans. The process he outlines makes developing and running the Looking Glass software simple and painless. He goes through the details of what software you need, what you

Bits : App Server Tuning Guide, Jython, more NetBeans and one million Solaris downloads

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 9:23 A GMT-08

For those using the Sun Java System App Server Enterprise Edition 8 - there is now a nice tuning guide I ran into. The same Sun engineer that wrote the tuning guide has a lot of stuff on Jython (Installing Jython Headlessly and Jython Ser

J2SE 5.0 Performance Paper + J2SE 5.0 and NetBeans Training Resources

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:58 A GMT-08

Sun has released a J2SE 5.0 Performance White Paper. It includes a number of benchmarking results of J2SE 5.0 compared to J2SE 1.4.2 on various platforms. The results are very good. Java has made good progress in making things go faster.

Eclipse On MacOS X : Broken - Another SWT-Related Story

Monday, 4 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

A number of Eclipse developers are acknowledging that Eclipse performance on Linux is anemic and the reasons rest with Eclipse.org bug 37683. SWT and GTK are not exactly best buddies. They don't play well together. My previous blog, Why Eclip

A NetBeans Developer Takes Up Eclipse and Comments

Monday, 4 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-08

More bits and pieces and an interesting story about a NetBeans developer taking up Eclipse and his comments.There is a blog entry, 24-Hour Time Shift, that I find unique in that it seems to apologize for some of the mediocre aspects of Eclipse (now

Quick Bits : Hippie Completion on NetBeans

Sunday, 3 April 2005 3:03 P GMT-08

Hippie Completion (or as it is sometimes referred to as Hippie Expansion) is a feature that apparently just made it into Eclipse and has been in NetBeans for some time and is also found in the Java Studio products. Tor Norbye's bl

The Best Kept Secret : NetBeans' Successful (Rich Client) Platform

Saturday, 2 April 2005 7:01 P GMT-08

Alot of the focus has been on the IDE portion of NetBeans, but there is a powerful NetBeans Platform framework that many have used to create rich client applications. Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine correctly points out that one of the best kept s

Switched to NetBeans from Eclipse

Friday, 1 April 2005 11:30 A GMT-08

Another Eclipse to NetBeans jump.I bumped into another blog of an Eclipse to NetBeans switch. This blog, CODING.MU, mentions that he recently converted to NetBeans. Not only that, he has a screencast of a demo in NetBeans. Back on January 21st E

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