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| <h1>Destination: Tokyo - More Tales from the NetBeans Day WorldTour</h1> |
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| <div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">Released: 07 Nov 2005</div> |
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| The NetBeans worldTour continues! Our latest event took place on Monday, 7 November in Tokyo, Japan. Unlike our previous NetBeans Days in San Francisco and |
| Beijing, <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jag">James Gosling</a> was unable to attend. In his place, he sent an excellent substitute: <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/jackson_qa.html">Jeff |
| Jackson</a>, his boss and Sun Microsystems' Vice President of Java Enterprise Platforms and Developer Products. Jackson served as keynote speaker for the |
| developers who gathered at the Tokyo International Forum to hear presentations, meet other NetBeans community members, and stock up on t-shirts and CDs.</p> |
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| <p>In his keynote address, Jackson gave an overview of NetBeans and described some of the exciting things happening in the NetBeans community including |
| positive feedback from developers, good reviews in industry magazines, and increasing interest from third parties. The highlight of his keynote, |
| though, was when he invited two luminaries from the Japanese NetBeans community up on to the stage. |
| <a href="http://www.fk.urban.ne.jp/home/kishida/">Kishida-san</a> is the driving force behind <a href="http://www.netbeans.jp">www.netbeans.jp</a> and has |
| written a soon-to-be-published book about NetBeans. |
| <a href="http://cropcrusher.web.infoseek.co.jp/index_en.html">Shimizu-san</a> who is known in the community as Noniko, is the writer of the famous |
| “housewife and Java” blog <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/Noniko/Weblog">NoniWeblog</a>. Jackson wrapped up his keynote by using a giant |
| Gosling-designed slingshot to send t-shirts into the audience.</p> |
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| <p>Jackson was followed by NetBeans Evangelist <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/">Gregg Sporar</a> who did a presentation on what |
| distinguishes NetBeans from the competition. Sporar started by defining NetBeans as two distinct things - a |
| <a href="https://netbeans.org/features/platform/index.html">platform</a> and an <a href="https://netbeans.org/features/ide/index.html">Integrated Development |
| Environment</a> (IDE). The NetBeans platform is used around the world by many organizations to develop rich-client applications. Sporar showed several |
| example applications and then turned his attention to the NetBeans IDE. He gave a quick tour of the IDE and then described some of its distinguishing |
| features. These included the Ant-based project system, superior out-of-box web and enterprise development support, an integrated profiler, excellent |
| mobile application development support, and really cool code-aware collaboration tools. Sporar then switched to describing some of the important new |
| features in the upcoming version 5.0 of the NetBeans IDE. This portion included several demos, capped off by a quick look at |
| <a href="https://netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=642">Project Matisse</a> the powerful new visual editor that is coming in |
| NetBeans 5.0. His demo of Project Matisse showed an application running in English and then in Japanese.</p> |
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| <p>Next up was Java Technology Evangelist <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/cmlee_qa.html">Chuk Munn Lee</a> with |
| an in-depth demo of the mobile application development tools in the NetBeans IDE. Lee showed how easy it is to do mobile development with the IDE. |
| He began his demonstration by building an application that makes appointments and then showed the application running in several different emulators. |
| Lee used the Visual Mobile Designer to drag and drop MIDP components, making it easy to define the program flow. He also used the IDE's excellent |
| device fragmentation support to define different code for different types of phones. Finally, Lee used the IDE's wireless connection wizard to |
| connect the mobile application to a web application.</p> |
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| <p>Gregg Sporar then came back onstage to describe the J2EE support in the NetBeans IDE. “NetBeans knows about the specifications of J2EE and handles |
| most of those details, so you can focus on writing your application,” Sporar said. NetBeans supports J2EE developers by providing tight integration |
| with web servers and application servers, and cool tools like a JSP editor and web services wizards. He showed how developers can view, open, and run |
| <a href="http://java.sun.com/reference/blueprints/index.html">Java BluePrints</a> from within NetBeans. Sporar also showed NetBeans support for web |
| services, Enterprise JavaBeans, and a demo of the enhanced Struts support that will be in version 5.0 of the NetBeans IDE. He finished by describing |
| how the NetBeans IDE will support the forthcoming Java EE 5 specification.</p> |
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| <p>Sporar was followed by <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/cbeckham">Charles Beckham</a>, Sun's Technical Director for Tools. Beckham told |
| the audience about the history of the <a href="https://netbeans.org/projects/obsolete/index.html">collaboration feature</a> and how it took awhile to educate |
| everyone on the vision that he had for collaboration. That discussion was followed by a demo of the collaboration features in NetBeans, after which |
| Beckham described <a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jsenterprise/">Java Studio Enterprise</a>, |
| another IDE developed by Sun that is built on top of NetBeans.</p> |
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| <p>The final demo of the day was given by <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dan">Dan Roberts</a>, Sun's Director of Product Marketing for Tools. Roberts |
| presented a brief demo of Sun's <a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/">Java Studio Creator</a> IDE that is also built on |
| top of NetBeans and is designed to provide a drag-and-drop development environment for creating web applications. Roberts showed Creator's easy and |
| intuitive features that are used to bind backend data services to the controls on a web page.</p> |
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| <p>To wrap things up, Jackson took the stage again and invited Kishida-san and Shimizu-san back up to help him launch the remaining Gosling-signed |
| t-shirts into the audience. That was followed by a beer bust where a good time was had by all!</p> |
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| <p>Our next stop will be in Toronto this December. For more information on NetBeans Day Toronto and other upcoming venues, see the |
| NetBeans worldTour site.</p> |
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