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April 2006
Help Spread The Java Platform To Visual Basic and C# Developers
Thursday, 27 April 2006 8:49 P GMT-08
We are no longer in 1995. Java has some fantastic development tools- NetBeans, Java Studio Creator 2, Eclipse, BlueJ and many more. Java infrastructure is richly diverse with advanced frameworks. It is time to show adopt a VB or C# developer.
Sang's Comprehensive List of NetBeans Tutorials and Articles
Wednesday, 26 April 2006 7:15 A GMT-08
Sang Shin, a Java Evangelist, who has created the JavaPassion site which is a popular place to learn and get free training materials on a number of Java topics has created a comprehensive page of NetBeans-related tutorials.
Vote : Have You Tried To Move VB Developers To Java ?
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:59 P GMT-08
I have been wondering lately about Visual Basic and VB.NET - how many VB developers have crossed over to Java. Have you tried to show VB/VB.NET developers your IDE and pulled some across ? Vote.
Sun's Project DarkStar : Massively Scalable Gaming Server
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 9:37 P GMT-08
A development effort at Sun, Project DarkStar, is a research effort aimed at making it easier to develop multi-player online games that can be deployed on a smassive scale and made available to players using virtually any client device. Check it out.
Spinning Up a NetBeans 6 Daily
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 7:09 P GMT-08
I downloaded a NetBeans 6 daily and I really like the new welcome screen. Useful. Check it out.
NetBeans Used For Interactive Television Application Development
Monday, 24 April 2006 10:31 A GMT-08
Wow! This is pretty cool news. NetBeans is now being used to help develop interactive TV solutions. DigiSoft.tv today unleashed their IPTV Application Lab - "IPTVBox". As well, Matisse is being used now for GUI development for IPTV. Check it out.
Vote : What Do I Use My IDE Primarily For ?
Sunday, 23 April 2006 4:17 P GMT-08
Today, I am starting up a new poll - "I use my IDE primarily for :" and you can choose Java, C and C++ or a scripting language or 'I don't use an IDE'. Check it out and vote.
NetBeans Rich Client Platform : Music NotePad (Follow the Construction)
Sunday, 23 April 2006 3:14 P GMT-08
To understand the power of the the NetBeans rich client Platform (RCP) - it is worth examining what Geertjan has been doing with NetBeans over at his blog. He has designed built a music application built on the NetBeans rich client platform. Check i
Java Studio Creator 2 New Tutorial : Creating Bookmarkable URLs in Your Web App
Sunday, 23 April 2006 1:17 A GMT-08
Java Studio Creator 2 website has a tutorial on Creating Bookmarkable URLs in your web app. If you have a page that you want users to be able to bookmark and pass parameters, you can use the URL to pass the parameters. This tutorial shows how.
InfoWorld Review : NetBeans IDE "More Intuitive Than Eclipse"
Saturday, 22 April 2006 4:44 P GMT-08
InfoWorld has a very nice review of NetBeans and has some nice things to say about NetBeans especially vis-a-vis Eclipse. Check it out.
More Maven2...
Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:02 P GMT-08
There is a well-written blog entry with more NetBeans/Maven2 use. It is another approach to using Maven2. Check it out.
Got Mevenide2 ? NetBeans Does.
Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:07 P GMT-08
The Mevenide team has just released Mevenide2 NetBeans 2.1.It offers plugins which will allow you to open existing maven2 projects, an IDE project type directly based on Maven2 POM and a ton of other project and editor related features. Check it out.
Matisse : Easy Internationalization
Thursday, 20 April 2006 9:44 A GMT-08
A new tutorial shows how easy it is to internationalize your GUI forms with the Matisse GUI Builder. Check it out.
MacOS X Makes Java Standard Edition 5.0 The Default JVM
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 2:27 P GMT-08
If you own a Mac - you know that MacOS X (Tiger) just passed a milestone - it is now uses Java 5.0 as the default JVM. So what this mean ? Which version of 5.0 ?
More Profiling Help and Tutorials
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:54 A GMT-08
In case you missed this - NetBeans has some more tutorials and help on the NetBeans Profiler.
Excellent Book : NetBeans IDE Field Guide (soon Second Edition)
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 8:51 A GMT-08
Gregg Sporar mentions that the NetBeans IDE (Second Edition) Field Guide will be available soon. The NetBeans Field Guide is an excellent book and I think the second additon will be even better. It contains many new chapters. Take a look...
Eclipse, NetBeans Matisse, GroupLayout and the Amazing BeanNetter
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 1:35 A GMT-08
NetBeans includes a free Matisse GUI Builder, Instantiations supports Swing GroupLayout in its Eclipse UI Builder, Genuitec supports Matisse directly in Matisse4MyEclipse and Tim Boudreau has unleashed something wonderfully useful. Check the images.
NetBeans and Eclipse : When More is Less
Monday, 17 April 2006 4:53 P GMT-08
I never paid attention to how big Eclipse is- for an editor/compiler/debugger- it chalks up 98 MB. NetBeans 6.0 dailies are coming in around 35.6 MB. They include more - such as support for a GUI builder, Java EE, Java SE, Struts and more stuff. Why?
Fourteen New NetBeans Plugins From Brazil
Saturday, 15 April 2006 9:26 P GMT-08
The Brazil Plugin-Contest has yielded fourteen new plugins - check them out.
Tim Cramer, Sun's Director of Developer Tools Interviewed
Saturday, 15 April 2006 3:36 P GMT-08
There is a great JavaPosse interview of Tim Cramer, Sun's Director of Developer Tools. He covers alot of ground including the NetBeans and Eclipse competition, what's coming in NetBeans 5.5 and 6.0...and alot more. It is an excellent interview...chec
Swing Pointers (Updated 4/14/2006) Now Available
Friday, 14 April 2006 11:41 A GMT-08
The Swing Pointers are simply a collection of Swing-related events, tutorials, latest new, presentations, blog entries and articles that have transpired in the last month. It is updated regularly. The latest version is now available - check it out.
Instantiations Offers GroupLayout Support, Second Popular Eclipse Company To Use Matisse's GroupLayout [updated]
Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:12 A GMT-08
Instantiations has joined Genuitec in offering NetBeans Matisse support. Bad news for Eclipse Visual Editor project and SWT.
Six New Plugins : TestNG, LaTeX, Project Extensions, Keytool, Cryptoservices and Launch4j
Wednesday, 12 April 2006 9:14 P GMT-08
Six new plugins that deal with TestNG, LaTeX, Project Extensions, Keytool, Cryptoservices and Launch4j are available. Check it out.
New NetBeans Plugin : Compute Server (Grid) Plugin
Thursday, 6 April 2006 1:13 A GMT-08
Sun's Compute Server technology aims to enable Java developers to easily and efficiently use the Sun Grid Compute Utility as a platform for the distributed execution of parallel computations. Sun's Compute Server release includes a NetBeans module,
Excellent NetBeans Tutorial : Quick Start Guide for Web Applications II
Wednesday, 5 April 2006 7:18 P GMT-08
If you are just starting out with NetBeans, Sang Shin has created an excellent tutorial. Check it out.