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 <p><h1>Benefits of Collaboration, Competition Highlighted at NetBeans Day 2005</h1>
 <div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">Patrick Keegan, originally published
 on java.sun.com, June 27, 2005</div>

 <p>Over 500 people packed the ballroom at the Argent Hotel on Sunday for the
 second annual NetBeans Day. Attendees were treated to keynote addresses from
 leading industry figures, demos of existing and upcoming features in the
 NetBeans IDE and platform, and giveaways of the new <i>NetBeans IDE Field
 Guide</i> (full disclosure: I am co-author of that book).

 <p>Sun Microsystems president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz,
 Java language founder James Gosling, and Javalobby founder Rick Ross all
 delivered keynote addresses. Hideya Kawahara and Paul Byrne provided a demo of
 Project Looking Glass, which has a thriving developer community hosted on
 java.net.

 <p>The speakers' emphasized the benefits of both collaboration and competition.

 <p>In his keynote address, Ross cited the role that the NetBeans IDE, in its
 competition with other development tools, has played in strengthening the Java
 community as a whole. "It's really amazing how much passion and loyalty people
 have to their IDEs," Ross said. "That passionate interest in development tools
 that programmers have creates fierce competition.... This competition has worked
 incredibly well." Ross contrasted the situation of Java technology developers,
 who can use multiple free IDEs that are constantly improving, with that of .NET
 programmers, who are locked into one expensive tool.

 <p>Ross went on to "set the record straight" about perceived shortcomings of the
 NetBeans platform and IDE compared to the Eclipse project, noting that the
 NetBeans IDE has supported the development of rich-client applications and plug-
 in modules for longer than Eclipse has even existed.

 <p>Ross further complimented the NetBeans IDE on making development easier and
 helping newcomers succeed, saying that it accelerates a new developer's sense of
 achievement. He concluded by urging developers to keep providing feedback to
 push the IDE team to continue making improvements.

 <p>In his brief address, Schwartz emphasized the importance of collaboration and
 community and the way that the NetBeans IDE project fits into that. Speaking
 about how Sun's commitment to openness is part of the company culture, Schwartz
 declared: "The cause of Sun is to eradicate the digital divide," not just
 between rich and poor countries but also between communities of developers.

 <p>Schwartz then introduced Todd Fast, an engineer for Sun's Java Studio
 Enterprise IDE, who provided a demo of developer collaboration features that
 combine instant messaging and the ability for developers to work on files
 simultaneously and see each other's changes as their colleagues type them. Fast
 announced that these features, which are currently available in Java Studio
 Enterprise technology, have been contributed to the NetBeans project. In
 addition, Fast noted that APIs are already available for further enhancing these
 features. He then demonstrated a voice-over-IP feature that another developer
 recently contributed.

 <p>After the opening keynote addresses, NetBeans technology evangelists and
 engineers provided demos of features in the recently released NetBeans IDE 4.1,
 announcements and demos of upcoming features, and information on how to build
 modules for the NetBeans platform.

 <p>Perhaps the best-received feature demo was that of Project Matisse, a new
 incarnation of the IDE's visual editor for Swing technology-based applications
 that includes the new "natural layout" and greatly simplifies user interface
 (UI) design with improved visual feedback. Matisse is available in current
 development builds of the NetBeans IDE and will likely be included in the next
 release.

 <p>Speakers also gave presentations on the NetBeans Profiler, the NetBeans
 Mobility Pack, JXTA, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java SE, formerly known
 as J2EE) support in NetBeans IDE, and new and hidden editing features. In
 addition, they provided demos of Java Studio Creator software and Java Studio
 Enterprise software, which are Sun IDEs that are based on the NetBeans IDE. Most
 of these features will also be covered in individual sessions throughout the
 course of the 2005 JavaOne conference.

 <p>A panel of technology experts answered questions about the future in their
 areas of expertise.

 <p>Graham Hamilton, the lead architect for the Java Platform, Standard Edition
 (Java SE, formerly known as J2SE), spoke about the extreme care that his team
 takes in adding language features to the JDK, even with the significant new
 features that appeared in J2SE 5.0. He noted that release 6 (code name Mustang)
 will contain no new Java language features. For release 7 (code name Dolphin), Hamilton and
 his team are exploring ways of manipulating XML literals through Java technology
 code.

 <p>Tim Bray (co-inventor of XML) spoke of his interest in evolving support for
 scripting languages such as Jython. He and Hamilton agreed that the Java
 language is not the best for all problems and that they would like to develop
 better multilanguage support.

 <p>Bill Shannon briefly spoke about the importance of annotations (introduced in
 J2SE 5.0) that will greatly improve ease of development in the Java EE 5
 platform, which is currently under development.

 <p>Robert Brewin (architect for Sun Developer Tools) spoke about the need to
 keep focusing on making tools easier to use.

 <p>At the end of the day, awards for community contribution were given to Rich
 Unger, Vincent Brabant, Maxym Mykhalchuk, Bruno Souza, and Manfred Riem.


 <p><h3>About the Author</h3>

 <p><a name="Keegan"><b>Patrick Keegan</b></a> has been writing technical
 documentation for the NetBeans IDE for six years. He is coauthor of <i>NetBeans
 IDE Field Guide</i>, which has just been published by Prentice Hall. He lives in
 Prague, Czech Republic.


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	<p><h1>Benefits of Collaboration, Competition Highlighted at NetBeans Day 2005</h1>
	<div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">Patrick Keegan, originally published
	on java.sun.com, June 27, 2005</div>

	<p>Over 500 people packed the ballroom at the Argent Hotel on Sunday for the
	second annual NetBeans Day. Attendees were treated to keynote addresses from
	leading industry figures, demos of existing and upcoming features in the
	NetBeans IDE and platform, and giveaways of the new <i>NetBeans IDE Field
	Guide</i> (full disclosure: I am co-author of that book).

	<p>Sun Microsystems president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz,
	Java language founder James Gosling, and Javalobby founder Rick Ross all
	delivered keynote addresses. Hideya Kawahara and Paul Byrne provided a demo of
	Project Looking Glass, which has a thriving developer community hosted on
	java.net.

	<p>The speakers' emphasized the benefits of both collaboration and competition.

	<p>In his keynote address, Ross cited the role that the NetBeans IDE, in its
	competition with other development tools, has played in strengthening the Java
	community as a whole. "It's really amazing how much passion and loyalty people
	have to their IDEs," Ross said. "That passionate interest in development tools
	that programmers have creates fierce competition.... This competition has worked
	incredibly well." Ross contrasted the situation of Java technology developers,
	who can use multiple free IDEs that are constantly improving, with that of .NET
	programmers, who are locked into one expensive tool.

	<p>Ross went on to "set the record straight" about perceived shortcomings of the
	NetBeans platform and IDE compared to the Eclipse project, noting that the
	NetBeans IDE has supported the development of rich-client applications and plug-
	in modules for longer than Eclipse has even existed.

	<p>Ross further complimented the NetBeans IDE on making development easier and
	helping newcomers succeed, saying that it accelerates a new developer's sense of
	achievement. He concluded by urging developers to keep providing feedback to
	push the IDE team to continue making improvements.

	<p>In his brief address, Schwartz emphasized the importance of collaboration and
	community and the way that the NetBeans IDE project fits into that. Speaking
	about how Sun's commitment to openness is part of the company culture, Schwartz
	declared: "The cause of Sun is to eradicate the digital divide," not just
	between rich and poor countries but also between communities of developers.

	<p>Schwartz then introduced Todd Fast, an engineer for Sun's Java Studio
	Enterprise IDE, who provided a demo of developer collaboration features that
	combine instant messaging and the ability for developers to work on files
	simultaneously and see each other's changes as their colleagues type them. Fast
	announced that these features, which are currently available in Java Studio
	Enterprise technology, have been contributed to the NetBeans project. In
	addition, Fast noted that APIs are already available for further enhancing these
	features. He then demonstrated a voice-over-IP feature that another developer
	recently contributed.

	<p>After the opening keynote addresses, NetBeans technology evangelists and
	engineers provided demos of features in the recently released NetBeans IDE 4.1,
	announcements and demos of upcoming features, and information on how to build
	modules for the NetBeans platform.

	<p>Perhaps the best-received feature demo was that of Project Matisse, a new
	incarnation of the IDE's visual editor for Swing technology-based applications
	that includes the new "natural layout" and greatly simplifies user interface
	(UI) design with improved visual feedback. Matisse is available in current
	development builds of the NetBeans IDE and will likely be included in the next
	release.

	<p>Speakers also gave presentations on the NetBeans Profiler, the NetBeans
	Mobility Pack, JXTA, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java SE, formerly known
	as J2EE) support in NetBeans IDE, and new and hidden editing features. In
	addition, they provided demos of Java Studio Creator software and Java Studio
	Enterprise software, which are Sun IDEs that are based on the NetBeans IDE. Most
	of these features will also be covered in individual sessions throughout the
	course of the 2005 JavaOne conference.

	<p>A panel of technology experts answered questions about the future in their
	areas of expertise.

	<p>Graham Hamilton, the lead architect for the Java Platform, Standard Edition
	(Java SE, formerly known as J2SE), spoke about the extreme care that his team
	takes in adding language features to the JDK, even with the significant new
	features that appeared in J2SE 5.0. He noted that release 6 (code name Mustang)
	will contain no new Java language features. For release 7 (code name Dolphin), Hamilton and
	his team are exploring ways of manipulating XML literals through Java technology
	code.

	<p>Tim Bray (co-inventor of XML) spoke of his interest in evolving support for
	scripting languages such as Jython. He and Hamilton agreed that the Java
	language is not the best for all problems and that they would like to develop
	better multilanguage support.

	<p>Bill Shannon briefly spoke about the importance of annotations (introduced in
	J2SE 5.0) that will greatly improve ease of development in the Java EE 5
	platform, which is currently under development.

	<p>Robert Brewin (architect for Sun Developer Tools) spoke about the need to
	keep focusing on making tools easier to use.

	<p>At the end of the day, awards for community contribution were given to Rich
	Unger, Vincent Brabant, Maxym Mykhalchuk, Bruno Souza, and Manfred Riem.


	<p><h3>About the Author</h3>

	<p><a name="Keegan"><b>Patrick Keegan</b></a> has been writing technical
	documentation for the NetBeans IDE for six years. He is coauthor of <i>NetBeans
	IDE Field Guide</i>, which has just been published by Prentice Hall. He lives in
	Prague, Czech Republic.


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