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| <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2008/nb-day.html"><img |
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| <h1>NetBeans |
| Day 2008 Partner Spotlight</h1> |
| <span style="font-style: italic;">The <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/partners/">NetBeans Partner |
| Program</a> |
| recognizes companies that add value to the |
| NetBeans Project by building plugins, endorsing NetBeans |
| as a development environment and/or application platform, and more. At <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2008/nb-day.html">NetBeans |
| Day 2008</a>, some of our partner companies will be on-hand to showcase |
| their technologies and to demonstrate the ways to extend and get the |
| most out of the NetBeans IDE! Here's a preview of what to expect.</span><br> |
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| <div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.softwarefx.com/"><img |
| alt="Software FX's Chart FX for Java" |
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| alt="Tomas Tezak, Product Manager, ChartFX for Java" |
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| <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tomas |
| Tezak</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"> |
| <span style="font-weight: bold;">Product Manager</span><br |
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| <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chart FX for Java</span> |
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| <h4>What is Software FX, and how did the company become involved with |
| NetBeans?</h4> |
| <a href="http://www.softwarefx.com/">Software FX, Inc</a> was founded |
| in September of 1993 as a component |
| vendor for the emerging visual development community, which capitalizes |
| on the increasing demand for reusable objects. By providing |
| top-of-the-line components for different development environments, we |
| continue to lead the market in deploying graphic development tools to |
| the expanding development community.<br> |
| <br> |
| While the company started out with COM-based products and then moved |
| into .NET products, it has always been our objective to provide |
| powerful data visualization solutions for developers in all |
| platforms. Therefore, in 2003 we released <a |
| href="http://www.softwarefx.com/sfxJavaProducts/javaDeveloper/">Chart |
| FX for Java</a> 6.0 |
| which brought the power and stability of Chart FX to the Java/jsp |
| platform.<br> |
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| While designing and developing this first version of Chart FX for Java, |
| we became involved in the Java community to understand what the needs |
| of our future customer base would be, and what better way to do so than |
| to establish a close working relationship with Sun and the NetBeans |
| team. Those contacts would later lead to other collaborations and |
| ultimately to the current rewarding partnership.<br> |
| <h4><a href="../../../../images_www/javaone/2008/netbeans-chartfx-big.jpg"><img |
| alt="NetBeans-Chart FX7" |
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| <h4>What were the benefits of integrating Chart FX with the NetBeans |
| IDE?</h4> |
| Our main goal as a component vendor is to create products that are |
| powerful and convenient to use at the same time. We have always strived |
| to give developers the best possible experience when using Chart FX in |
| their applications. <br> |
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| For a charting component with 500+ properties, it was imperative for us |
| to provide an intuitive graphical interface to configure visual |
| properties of the chart. Integrating our Chart FX for Java Designer |
| with the NetBeans IDE was the natural step to take. By combining Chart |
| FX and NetBeans, developers are now able to create and configure the |
| charts graphically in the same environment they are using to code their |
| web applications.<br> |
| <br> |
| <h4>Software FX is presenting a technical demo for NetBeans Day at |
| CommunityOne. Can you tell us about it and what to expect?</h4> |
| The focus of JavaOne for us will be to showcase the latest version of |
| the product, Chart FX for Java 7. The five-minute demo that will be |
| shown |
| during NetBeans day basically portrays in a very condensed way, how |
| easy it is to integrate interactive, data-driven charts into existing |
| web application projects in NetBeans 6.x. That demo will basically show |
| a small part of what we'll have in the breakfast session on May 7th.<br> |
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| <h4>What will be covered at the JavaOne Breakfast Session?</h4> |
| There are so many new things in ChartFX for Java 7 that we needed a |
| proper venue to let users see what this new version brings to the table.<br> |
| <br> |
| Chart FX for Java 7 features a zero footprint, fully interactive UI |
| thanks to a patent-pending, framework-independent implementation of |
| AJAX. This is something we have not seen from any other vendor in the |
| Java market and we wanted to show some of the dynamic things you can do |
| with it, from contextual menus and toolbars to advanced business |
| dashboards that combine charts, gauges and maps for an interactive |
| experience. <br> |
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| The idea is to let developers see how Chart FX for Java and the |
| NetBeans IDE can be combined in order to produce very powerful data |
| visualization applications with very little effort.<br> |
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| <h4>Do you have other events planned for the Conference week?</h4> |
| Besides the technical demo on NetBeans day and the Breakfast session, |
| we will have our booth at the pavilion where we will be answering |
| questions and doing one-on-one demos to further showcase the advantages |
| of Chart FX for Java.<br> |
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| <h4>What are your future development plans with NetBeans?</h4> |
| There are many things in discussion right now. While the Chart FX |
| plugin for NetBeans already makes things a lot easier for developers |
| working with charts, a couple of manual steps are still required. Our |
| ultimate goal is to achieve total seamless integration with NetBeans |
| through the plugin. Also, we plan to continue growing our partnership |
| with NetBeans by |
| providing more resources to our common users in the shape of |
| NetBeans-specific documentation, articles and samples.<br> |
| <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(April |
| 2008)</span><br> |
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| <h2>More Partners at NetBeans Day at CommunityOne</h2> |
| <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2008/dotfx.html">DotFX</a><br> |
| <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2008/elixirtech.html">Elixir |
| Technology</a><br> |
| <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2008/eviware.html">Eviware</a><br> |
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