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August 2006
Borland JBuilder To NetBeans IDE Migration Made Easier
Thursday, 31 August 2006 7:10 P GMT-08
It's not only Eclipse developers that are moving to NetBeans - its also JBuilder developers. Sun has made it easier to migrate from JBuilder to NetBeans with a number of services and white papers. Check it out.
White Paper : Building Mashup Portlets
Thursday, 31 August 2006 6:22 P GMT-08
Another new white paper, Building Mashup Portlets, is out. It describes how to build a mashup portlet that can aggregate geospatial data from data sources and combine it with an online mapping service based on AJAX to generate a mashup.
Four New Whitepapers : Web Services, Internationalizing Web Apps, Portlets, JetSpeed-2 & Creator
Thursday, 31 August 2006 12:40 P GMT-08
There are four new whitepapers. One shows you how to build web services using NetBeans and deploy them to Sun's Web Server 7.0. Three others focus on Creator and internationalizing web apps, using JetSpeed-2 and building IPC Portlets with Creator 2.
Interview - Part 2 : Tim Boudreau, NetBeans Evangelist - Matisse, RCP, Scripting
Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:34 A GMT-08
In the second part of a two part interview artima developer, Tim Boudreau is interviewed and provides more details about the revolutionary Java GUI builder in NetBeans, Matisse and how it differs from past builders. He also discusses the NetBeans Ri
Interview : Tim Boudreau, NetBeans Evangelist: The Future
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 9:18 P GMT-08
Tim Boudreau, one of the most notable NetBeans Evangelists, was recently interviewed on artima developer by Frank Sommers. This is the first part of a two part interview series. Tim explains why so many developers are moving to NetBeans.
New Grails Tutorial : Grails + EJB Domain Models Step-By-Step
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 5:21 P GMT-08
There is a new step-by-step Grails tutorial showing how to use (Groovy)/Grails and EJB3 to build a web application.
Two NetBeans Articles : Productive Hacks, Quick Reference
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 1:20 P GMT-08
There is a new article out on various, powerful NetBeans 5.0 hacks. The article provides a number of editor/navigation hacks - like auto-generating your Getters and Setters, refactoring code, etc. Also the Quick Reference has alot of productive info
NetBeans Profiler 6 Milestone 2 : HeapWalker, Load Generator On Tap
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 6:13 P GMT-08
NetBeans Profiler 6 Milestone 2 is available. Milestone 2 includes a preview of HeapWalker and Load Generator.
CoolThreads, Cool Tools and Architecting Futures
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 5:19 P GMT-08
I'm kind of doing a refresh on CoolThreads technology. I have been looking at the CoolThreads technologies and I bumped into Cool Tools, a great toolset, and along the way I bumped into some great whitepapers including a Tuning Java one.
Aerith : The JXMapViewer Component
Monday, 28 August 2006 11:27 P GMT-08
There is an excellent article by Joshua Marinacci, Getting Started With The Aerith Mapping Component, which describes the Aerith mapping component. Aerith is a killer Swing app that is a road trip slideshow editor.
Whitepaper : Using Hibernate and Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE
Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:56 P GMT-08
There is a great whitepaper showing you how to use Hibernate with Sun Java Studio Creator 2. The whitepaper is a tutorial which shows you how to build a web apps in the Java Studio Creator that uses Hibernate libraries and plain old Java objects.
Java Studio Creator 2 : Hotfix Turbo-charges Performance
Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:42 P GMT-08
Run don't walk and get what has been one of the hottest fixes for Java Studio Creator. It vastly improves performance.
NetBeans Day and Sun Tech Days Heading To Seattle...and more
Wednesday, 16 August 2006 5:16 P GMT-08
Four big events - NetBeans Day, OpenSolaris Day and Sun Tech Days and Java University Day will be held in Seattle between September 6th-8th. Check it out.
New Tutorial : Creating Spring MVC Applications with NetBeans
Friday, 4 August 2006 2:43 A GMT-08
There is an new tutorial , Creating a Simple Spring MVC Application with NetBeans, it focuses on showing how to build Spring applications using the NetBeans. Check it out.
Mobile Development Tutorial : Visual Mobile Designer Custom Components
Thursday, 3 August 2006 8:21 P GMT-08
There is an excellent another new tutorial , Visual Mobile Designer Custom Components : Creating Tables with TableItem, it focuses on showing how to build mobile applications using the NetBeans Mobility Pack. Check it out.
Tutorial : Scripting For the Java Platform
Thursday, 3 August 2006 9:16 A GMT-08
here is an excellent new tutorial , Scripting for the Java Platform, on using scripting within the Java platform.
Using Java To Extend StarOffice or OpenOffice
Wednesday, 2 August 2006 10:25 A GMT-08
There is an excellent new tutorial , Programming With StarOffice 8 Software Development Kit, on writing extensions to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice. Check it out.
Bits : NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2 Out, Two Tutorials - Matisse and Enteprise Pack Process Service
Wednesday, 2 August 2006 7:26 A GMT-08
If you didn't know NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2 is out. Also two new tutorials, one on building GUIs on MacOS X with Matisse and the second one is on understanding the Travel Reservation Service in NetBeans 5.5 Enterprise Pack.
NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition is Available
Wednesday, 2 August 2006 4:26 A GMT-08
The University of Kent and NetBeans.org are collaborating to create a smooth migration path for students learning the Java from beginners' stages through to the use of professional development tools. The result is the NetBeans IDE BlueJ edition.