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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #221 - Dec 12, 2005</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #221 - Dec 12, 2005<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-12-12.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-12-12.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>NetBeans at JavaPolis 2005
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| Join the NetBeans Team at JavaPolis, Europe's leading Java technology developers
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| conference. This year's event continues through December 16th.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=173">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=173</a>>
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| NetBeans Goes WorldWide Baby
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| On the heels of news that Java is surpassing C and C++ for use in many open source
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| projects, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced a broad-based program to distribute
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| NetBeans open source Java development platform to developers throughout the world.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=174">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=174</a>>
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| Interview with the Authors of Matisse
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| Roman Strobl interviewed Tomas Pavek (NetBeans developer) and Scott Violet (Swing
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| developer), the main authors of project Matisse. You can find out more about project
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| Matisse's background and its future plans in the interview. Take a look at the links
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| on Roman's Blog and share your opinions in the comments section:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=175">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=175</a>>
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| Creating NetBeans Plug-ins, by Edgar Silva
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| Edgar Silva who has put together a nice little flash demo illustrating how easy it
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| is to create a NetBeans plug-in. Edgar uses Matisse to create a simple timesheet user
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| interface and incorporates that into NetBeans as a plug-in. You catch the demo here.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=176">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=176</a>>
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| Blackberry Development Using NetBeans Mobility
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| With the RIM Blackberry JDE 4.1, you can now build Java ME applications for
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| Blackberry devices using the NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0. In this article, NetBeans
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| Evangelist Matt Volpi gives you step-by-step instructions on how to get started.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=177">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=177</a>>
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| eBay Developer Challenge 2006
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| Enter your innovative application in the eBay Developer Challenge 2006. You could
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| win $5,000 or many other great prizes.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=178">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=178</a>>
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| Use Brain Leonard's recently updated, "Using NetBeans to Develop with the eBay SDK
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| for Java" tutorial demonstrating how to get up and running with the eBay SDK for
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| Java. By using NetBeans 4.1 to develop your eBay applications, you'll have the
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| added productivity of code completion, Javadoc help, code compilation, execution
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| and debugging all from inside the NetBeans IDE.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=179">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=179</a>>
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| JOnAS Plug-in for NetBeans IDE
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| NetBeans IDE 5.0 will support a bunch of servers right out-of-the-box. But, if
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| there's a server that it doesn't support, there's a tutorial to guide you in
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| developing support for your favorite server. Manfred Riem, for example, started work
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| on support for the JOnAS server. Read about it here (and consider contributing to
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| this plug-in or beginning to create your own):
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=180">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=180</a>>
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| New Blog by Martin Adamek
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| There is a new Blog about Java Persistence API containing technical tutorials. Check
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| it out as it is well worth the visit.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=181">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=181</a>>
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| NetBeans Collaboration Using Morse Code
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| There has been an increasing amount of chatter concerning the integration or plug-in
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| collaboration tools in NetBeans that allow developers to work together in real-time
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| regardless of location. The Blogger considers high speed Morse code can be used to
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| make developer team members aware of project events of interest. Read on at
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=187">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=187</a>>
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| JA-SIG Conference
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| Within the higher education developer community there is interest in Sun's decision
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| to make all of its software freely available. Read this report about the recent
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| JA-SIG conference, which includes Gregg Sporar's description of some new features in
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| the NetBeans IDE.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=188">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=188</a>>
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| MagicDraw UML 10.5 Updated Integration with NetBeans and Improved GUI
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| This new version delivers GUI improvements that increase the convenience and
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| flexibility of working with MagicDraw UML. To reflect the changes in NetBeans IDE 4.X
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| No Magic has updated the seamless integration with NetBeans IDE. This update allows
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| the most standard compliant UML tool on the market to be used by the users of the
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| latest NetBeans version.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=186">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=186</a>>
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| NetBeans NetBeans Module - Buildap
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| Buildap (aka VSCB) is a visual software design and component-based development tool.
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| It provides an application development framework and component libraries to build
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| web based, distributed as well as standalone applications. Support event based
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| architectures. Buildap works with NetBeans IDE 4.x.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=184">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=184</a>>
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| Updated NetBeans Module - YourKit Java Profiler
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| YourKit has developed a new approach to profiling of applications on development and
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| production stages, bringing unparalleled benefits to professional Java developers,
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| on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Solaris SPARC/Intel, Mac OS X. Features: Powerful
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| analysis capabilities, On-demand profiling, Free embedding into production, J2EE
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| support, Java 5.0 support, Quick and easy installation, J2ME support, User-
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| friendliness and usability, Flexible licensing policy. YourKit Java Profiler has
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| been updated to work with NetBeans IDE 5.0.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=185">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=185</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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