src/content/community/articles/javaone/2006/nb-day-report-2006.html - netbeans-website-cleanup - Git at Google

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <HTML>
 <HEAD>
 	<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
 	<TITLE>NetBeans Day 2006 Report</TITLE>
 	<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="A report on NetBeans Day 2006">
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../netbeans.css">
 	<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css">
 </HEAD>
 <BODY>

 <H1>NetBeans Software Day 2006 -- Empowering Developers Worldwide</H1>

 <div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">By Ruth Kusterer, originally published on java.sun.com,
 May 15, 2006</div>

 <P>It's like hitting the switch in a power station. The 12-city
 <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/worldtour/">NetBeans IDE World Tour</a> is spreading like wildfire from Toronto to
 Brasilia, from Tokyo to Johannesburg, and back to San Francisco.
 Millions of Java technology developers already plug into NetBeans IDE
 5.0, and NetBeans IDE 5.5 is on its way to empower even more.
 Registration numbers for NetBeans Software Day rose to new heights:
 On Monday, May 15, 2006, about 1000 developers squeezed into one of
 the bigger halls in San Francisco's Argent Hotel -- almost twice as
 many as last year. What an electrifying year for the NetBeans
 community.
 </P>

 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nbday2006-crowd.jpg" width="300"
 alt="Picture of the crowd at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

 <P>NetBeans Software day at the <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2006/nb-day.html">JavaOne(SM) 2006</a> conference began
 with Tim Cramer's opening keynote. Now senior director of Java Tools
 at Sun, Cramer announced the Subversion support module that will be
 included in the final release of the highly anticipated <A HREF="https://netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html">NetBeans IDE 5.5 release</a>. The latest beta is already a popular download among
 developers, with improved versioning control and many more extended
 Java enterprise, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Unified
 Modeling Language (UML) features-- all right out of the box and
 free.
 </P>

 <P>Cramer revealed that the successful launches of NetBeans IDE 5.0
 and 5.5 beta have attracted over 100 <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/partners/index.html">commercial and community partners</a> this year, and more are joining each week. Among them are
 Sprint, a global provider of communication services; InsiTech, a
 contributor of ultra-thin rich-client Java interfaces; Lattix Inc.,
 the source of the Lightweight Dependency Models plug-in; Ricoh
 Company Ltd., one of the leading global manufacturers of office
 automation equipment; Apache Maven, with its project management and
 comprehension tool; and SavaJe, the developer of the most advanced
 Java technology-based mobile operating platform. And just today,
 JBoss and AMD have joined, too.
 </P>

 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-1.jpg" width="200"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006"
 />&nbsp;<img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-2.jpg" width="200"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

 <P>Cramer then handed the microphone to Jonathan Schwartz, the new
 president and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, succeeding
 the current chairman of the board of directors, Scott McNealy.
 Schwartz himself introduced Rich Green, who recently returned to Sun
 as chief of the software group and consequently had to bear some of
 Schwartz's jokes. On a more serious note, Schwartz then pointed out
 the importance of good tools, because his experience showed that
 working with good tools increases the engineers' working morale
 significantly. One pretty clear example for such a tool, Sprint's
 NetBeans IDE-based Mobility IDE, was demonstrated live.
 </P>

 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-3.jpg" width="300"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

 <P>But when Click and Hack, the Type-It Brothers, also known as
 Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter, showed up onstage with a bunch of
 optical illusions, the audience was a little puzzled. Bloch is the
 chief Java architect at Google and author of the Jolt Award-winning
 book, <I>Effective Java</I>. He is co-author of <I>JavaPuzzlers:
 Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases</I>, together with his fellow
 Google employee Neal Gafter, a software engineer and Java evangelist.
 </P>
 <P>Their presentation's connection to NetBeans Software Day soon
 became clear when they proceeded to show code illusions: pieces of
 code that seemed straightforward enough but that did not behave as
 expected. What if the IDE could not only detect these common and
 hard-to-notice errors for you but also fix them? Enter Tom Ball with
 Jackpot, NetBeans IDE's new secret weapon. The audience broke into
 applause at his presentation of Jackpot, which can be described as a
 very advanced FindBugs plus Refactoring on steroids. The Jackpot
 module is available for testing on the beta update center.
 </P>

 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-4.jpg" width="300"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

 <P>Before the in-depth sessions started, Bob Brewin quickly talked
 about Sun's tools strategy and the future of the four free IDEs --
 Sun Java Studio Creator (JSC), Sun Java Studio Enterprise (JSE),
 NetBeans IDE, and Sun Studio.
 </P>
 <P>Do you mainly create rich web applications? Let JSC help you. Do
 you specialize in SOA and enterprise applications? Try JSE. Do you
 live on the leading edge? Try NetBeans IDE daily builds. Or are you
 focusing on C/C++ development on the Solaris Operating Environment
 and Linux operating system? Go with Sun Studio. These features will
 become available over the course of this year in one standard
 distribution of the NetBeans IDE. This process is starting now with
 version 5.5 and the Enterprise Pack, and it will continue with the
 release of the new native C/C++ support.
 </P>

 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-7.jpg" width="300"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

 <P>Apart from development for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
 (Java EE) 5, the sessions that followed addressed the next generation
 of GUI building, for example, Project Matisse; the advantages of
 building rich client applications on the NetBeans platform; as well
 as state-of-the-art mobile application development with NetBeans
 Mobility Pack and the new SavaJe CDC pack. For each of these topics,
 NetBeans software engineers and technology evangelists had prepared
 live feature demonstrations for the attendees.
 </P>
 <P>The sessions were divided in two tracks: Track A gave an
 exhaustive overview of SOA, enterprise, and mobile application
 development, as well as interoperability of enterprise features
 (Project Tango). Track B zoomed in on building user interfaces and
 client applications, covering development tools for Java EE and Java
 Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), as well as for the NetBeans
 platform and the new Realtime Java Plug-in. The speakers also
 answered burning questions from the audience.
 </P>
 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nbday2006-tom-wheeler.jpg" width="300"
  alt="Picture of James Gosling awarding Tom Wheeler the NetBeans Community award" /></div></p>
 <P>In the afternoon, the attendees reassembled for the closing
 keynote by &quot;the father of Java,&quot; James Gosling. Gosling has
 initiated the Jackpot project and has worked on the Real-Time
 Specification for Java (RTSJ). The current chief technology officer
 of Sun's Developer Products group had the honor of awarding four
 members of the NetBeans community with a certificate and a Sun Ultra
 20 workstation, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to
 the ongoing project. Congratulations to Wade Chandler, Ramon Ramos,
 David Strupl, and Tom Wheeler!
 </P>

 <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-5.jpg" width="200"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006"
 />&nbsp;<img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-6.jpg" width="200"
 alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

 <P>This day went by much too soon. But attendees took home more than
 just the impressions of the <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=netbeans_worldtour_movie">energetic music clip featuring shots of
 developers from all the world tour locations</a>. NetBeans Software Day
 was an excellent opportunity for everyone to tap into the collective
 brainpower of Java technology luminaries and fellow developers. And
 award winners weren't the only ones to go home with a little
 something extra in their conference backpacks: The first 400
 attendees through the door received a free copy of the new <I>NetBeans
 IDE Field Guide</I> (second edition) and a 256 MB USB drive.
 </P>


 </BODY>
 </HTML>
	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
	<HTML>
	<HEAD>
	<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
	<TITLE>NetBeans Day 2006 Report</TITLE>
	<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="A report on NetBeans Day 2006">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../netbeans.css">
	<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css">
	</HEAD>
	<BODY>

	<H1>NetBeans Software Day 2006 -- Empowering Developers Worldwide</H1>

	<div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">By Ruth Kusterer, originally published on java.sun.com,
	May 15, 2006</div>

	<P>It's like hitting the switch in a power station. The 12-city
	<a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/worldtour/">NetBeans IDE World Tour</a> is spreading like wildfire from Toronto to
	Brasilia, from Tokyo to Johannesburg, and back to San Francisco.
	Millions of Java technology developers already plug into NetBeans IDE
	5.0, and NetBeans IDE 5.5 is on its way to empower even more.
	Registration numbers for NetBeans Software Day rose to new heights:
	On Monday, May 15, 2006, about 1000 developers squeezed into one of
	the bigger halls in San Francisco's Argent Hotel -- almost twice as
	many as last year. What an electrifying year for the NetBeans
	community.
	</P>

	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nbday2006-crowd.jpg" width="300"
	alt="Picture of the crowd at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

	<P>NetBeans Software day at the <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2006/nb-day.html">JavaOne(SM) 2006</a> conference began
	with Tim Cramer's opening keynote. Now senior director of Java Tools
	at Sun, Cramer announced the Subversion support module that will be
	included in the final release of the highly anticipated <A HREF="https://netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html">NetBeans IDE 5.5 release</a>. The latest beta is already a popular download among
	developers, with improved versioning control and many more extended
	Java enterprise, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Unified
	Modeling Language (UML) features-- all right out of the box and
	free.
	</P>

	<P>Cramer revealed that the successful launches of NetBeans IDE 5.0
	and 5.5 beta have attracted over 100 <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/partners/index.html">commercial and community partners</a> this year, and more are joining each week. Among them are
	Sprint, a global provider of communication services; InsiTech, a
	contributor of ultra-thin rich-client Java interfaces; Lattix Inc.,
	the source of the Lightweight Dependency Models plug-in; Ricoh
	Company Ltd., one of the leading global manufacturers of office
	automation equipment; Apache Maven, with its project management and
	comprehension tool; and SavaJe, the developer of the most advanced
	Java technology-based mobile operating platform. And just today,
	JBoss and AMD have joined, too.
	</P>

	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-1.jpg" width="200"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006"
	/> <img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-2.jpg" width="200"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

	<P>Cramer then handed the microphone to Jonathan Schwartz, the new
	president and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, succeeding
	the current chairman of the board of directors, Scott McNealy.
	Schwartz himself introduced Rich Green, who recently returned to Sun
	as chief of the software group and consequently had to bear some of
	Schwartz's jokes. On a more serious note, Schwartz then pointed out
	the importance of good tools, because his experience showed that
	working with good tools increases the engineers' working morale
	significantly. One pretty clear example for such a tool, Sprint's
	NetBeans IDE-based Mobility IDE, was demonstrated live.
	</P>

	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-3.jpg" width="300"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

	<P>But when Click and Hack, the Type-It Brothers, also known as
	Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter, showed up onstage with a bunch of
	optical illusions, the audience was a little puzzled. Bloch is the
	chief Java architect at Google and author of the Jolt Award-winning
	book, <I>Effective Java</I>. He is co-author of <I>JavaPuzzlers:
	Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases</I>, together with his fellow
	Google employee Neal Gafter, a software engineer and Java evangelist.
	</P>
	<P>Their presentation's connection to NetBeans Software Day soon
	became clear when they proceeded to show code illusions: pieces of
	code that seemed straightforward enough but that did not behave as
	expected. What if the IDE could not only detect these common and
	hard-to-notice errors for you but also fix them? Enter Tom Ball with
	Jackpot, NetBeans IDE's new secret weapon. The audience broke into
	applause at his presentation of Jackpot, which can be described as a
	very advanced FindBugs plus Refactoring on steroids. The Jackpot
	module is available for testing on the beta update center.
	</P>

	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-4.jpg" width="300"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

	<P>Before the in-depth sessions started, Bob Brewin quickly talked
	about Sun's tools strategy and the future of the four free IDEs --
	Sun Java Studio Creator (JSC), Sun Java Studio Enterprise (JSE),
	NetBeans IDE, and Sun Studio.
	</P>
	<P>Do you mainly create rich web applications? Let JSC help you. Do
	you specialize in SOA and enterprise applications? Try JSE. Do you
	live on the leading edge? Try NetBeans IDE daily builds. Or are you
	focusing on C/C++ development on the Solaris Operating Environment
	and Linux operating system? Go with Sun Studio. These features will
	become available over the course of this year in one standard
	distribution of the NetBeans IDE. This process is starting now with
	version 5.5 and the Enterprise Pack, and it will continue with the
	release of the new native C/C++ support.
	</P>

	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-7.jpg" width="300"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

	<P>Apart from development for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
	(Java EE) 5, the sessions that followed addressed the next generation
	of GUI building, for example, Project Matisse; the advantages of
	building rich client applications on the NetBeans platform; as well
	as state-of-the-art mobile application development with NetBeans
	Mobility Pack and the new SavaJe CDC pack. For each of these topics,
	NetBeans software engineers and technology evangelists had prepared
	live feature demonstrations for the attendees.
	</P>
	<P>The sessions were divided in two tracks: Track A gave an
	exhaustive overview of SOA, enterprise, and mobile application
	development, as well as interoperability of enterprise features
	(Project Tango). Track B zoomed in on building user interfaces and
	client applications, covering development tools for Java EE and Java
	Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), as well as for the NetBeans
	platform and the new Realtime Java Plug-in. The speakers also
	answered burning questions from the audience.
	</P>
	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nbday2006-tom-wheeler.jpg" width="300"
	alt="Picture of James Gosling awarding Tom Wheeler the NetBeans Community award" /></div></p>
	<P>In the afternoon, the attendees reassembled for the closing
	keynote by "the father of Java," James Gosling. Gosling has
	initiated the Jackpot project and has worked on the Real-Time
	Specification for Java (RTSJ). The current chief technology officer
	of Sun's Developer Products group had the honor of awarding four
	members of the NetBeans community with a certificate and a Sun Ultra
	20 workstation, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to
	the ongoing project. Congratulations to Wade Chandler, Ramon Ramos,
	David Strupl, and Tom Wheeler!
	</P>

	<p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-5.jpg" width="200"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006"
	/> <img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-6.jpg" width="200"
	alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p>

	<P>This day went by much too soon. But attendees took home more than
	just the impressions of the <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=netbeans_worldtour_movie">energetic music clip featuring shots of
	developers from all the world tour locations</a>. NetBeans Software Day
	was an excellent opportunity for everyone to tap into the collective
	brainpower of Java technology luminaries and fellow developers. And
	award winners weren't the only ones to go home with a little
	something extra in their conference backpacks: The first 400
	attendees through the door received a free copy of the new <I>NetBeans
	IDE Field Guide</I> (second edition) and a 256 MB USB drive.
	</P>


	</BODY>
	</HTML>