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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #214 - Oct 18, 2005</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #214 - Oct 18, 2005<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-10-18.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-10-18.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>New: Goolge Toolbar in NetBeans |
| In his blog <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=80,">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=80,</a>> |
| Ludo announced that the plug-in module tools provided by NetBeans IDE 5.0 allowed him |
| to create a Google toolbar for NetBeans in only 16 minutes. Not much later, Geertjan |
| announced <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=81">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=81</a>> |
| a new quick start guide that explains how Ludo did it. Go ahead -- time yourself. Maybe |
| you can make the Google toolbar even faster than Ludo... |
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| NetBeans Rich Client Platform: A New Tutorial |
| Via Charles Ditzel - <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=82">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=82</a>> |
| Tim Boudreau has written a new tutorial on building a NetBeans RCP application |
| demonstrating: creating a Module/plug-in Suite, implementing the module, define actions, |
| menu items and Toolbar buttons, perform branding actions (Icons, Splash Screen), |
| removing any unneeded modules and create a distribution. Tutorial can be found here: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=96">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=96</a>> |
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| Case Study: 1SYNC and NetBeans |
| 1SYNC used NetBeans to develop a programmatic, machine-to-machine, Web services-based |
| interface to the UMA, enabling subscribers and partners to make changes to user records |
| using their in-house systems. Read the full case study on sun.com. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=84">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=84</a>> |
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| Learn Java and NetBeans - New Book : Simply Java |
| This book does not overwhelm new users with too many things and more importantly it |
| allows new users to learn Java and NetBeans at the same time thus making the IDE a |
| natural part of the developing software. Simply Java makes use of the latest version of |
| Java (5.0), NetBeans IDE (4.1) and includes a CD and all the source and figures from the |
| book. More information is available at Amazon.com. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=79">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=79</a>> |
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| NetBeans IDE Tips and Tricks |
| There is a new page on java.net that is used to gather links to useful tips & tricks |
| created by people working on NetBeans and by the NetBeans community. If you know about an |
| interesting and short article which helps users achieve some goal in the IDE, please add |
| a link here. Links should be divided into categories, if the your category doesn't exist, |
| just create it. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=94">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=94</a>> |
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| NetBeans 5.0 Flash Tutorials in French |
| Vincent Brabant is a NetBeans Board Member, leads the localization of the NetBeans IDE |
| in French, and supports the French speaking members of NetBeans through the mail lists |
| and localization of content and news. He is a strong advocate promoting NetBeans and |
| Java. NetBeans.org is very lucky to have such a strong and creative advocate. Vincent |
| just released four new Flash tutorials for the French NetBeans community. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=85">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=85</a>> |
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| Interview with NetBeans Board Member Rich Unger |
| In his interview with the website IndicThreads.com, NetBeans Board Member Rich Unger |
| talks about NetBeans 5.0, NetBeans Profiler and the changing Java IDE market. He shares |
| his views on plug-in development for the NetBeans platform and on Eclipse. He also |
| elaborates on why he thinks the field is wide open for client frameworks for desktop |
| java apps and how it could come down to Swing versus SWT. Rich is a current member of the |
| NetBeans Governance Board and has been a contributor to NetBeans for several years. He |
| was honored at this year's NetBeans Software Day for his valuable contribution to the |
| NetBeans platform. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=86">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=86</a>> |
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| Using NetBeans with the JBoss Getting Started Guide |
| Interested in using the NetBeans IDE to develop applications for the JBoss application |
| server? This article will show you how - it is intended as a comparison to this online |
| JBoss document Getting Started with JBoss 4.0: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=87">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=87</a>> |
| Using an existing JBoss application it shows how to create a project and then use the |
| IDE to browse, build, deploy, and debug. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=88">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=88</a>> |
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| Create Your Own Refactoring Feature. Now! |
| Do you want to contribute to the NetBeans IDE? Join the Refactoring Team and create your |
| own refactoring feature. For details visit. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=95">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=95</a>> |
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| Tackle Device Fragmentation with NetBeans and the NetBeans Mobility Pack |
| Building J2ME applications with a single code base that deploys to an ever-growing set |
| of platforms is a tough and maybe impossible task. Find out how using Sun's NetBeans |
| IDE with the NetBeans Mobility Pack can help. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=89">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=89</a>> |
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| NetBeans PMD Plug-in v1.3 Released |
| Radim Kubacki has released v1.3 of the NetBeans plugin; it now works with NetBeans 5.0, |
| has several specific NetBeans rules, and includes an upgrade to PMD 3.3. You can get |
| it here: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=90">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=90</a>> |
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| Beta Update for NetBeans JMX Module |
| The JMX team have announced a beta update of the existing NetBeans module for JMX |
| technology. It is downloadable from the 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 Beta update centers. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=91">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=91</a>> |
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| Kalideoscope Visual Editor for NetBeans IDE |
| Xoetrope launches XUI 2.0, and ships with KalIDEoscope, a brand new NetBeans plug-in |
| that allows visual construction of rich-client applications. With it you can lay out |
| your applications and debug them using the full power of the NetBeans IDE. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=92">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=92</a>> |
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| NetBeans worldTour - Next Stop JavaOne Japan |
| Discover the power of Java technology and NetBeans at JavaOne Tokyo, November 8th - |
| 10th. More details about NetBeans presence will be available shortly but go ahead and |
| get yourself registered today! |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=93">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=93</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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