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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #256 - Sep 04, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #256 - Sep 04, 2006<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-09-04.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-09-04.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>September 6th - NetBeans Day Seattle, Washington
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| The NetBeans WorldTour is a no cost event and exciting learning
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| opportunity. See first-hand how NetBeans IDE can help you become more
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| productive with its unmatched out-of-the-box experience. Register today.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=740">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=740</a>>
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| For more information on the agenda and the upcoming Shanghai and
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| Beijing, China locations follow here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=741">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=741</a>>
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| NetBeans Governance Board Elections - Last Call for Nominations
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| This is the last call for making your nominations for the NetBeans
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| Governance Board elections. For the list of current nominees and
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| information on how to nominate candidates continue here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=742">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=742</a>>
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| Feedback Wanted: HeapWalker Added to NetBeans Profiler
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| The NetBeans Profiler developers have added the new HeapWalker feature
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| to Milestone 2 of NetBeans 6.0. This new feature is still being defined
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| and the developers are very open to feedback. To make it even easier to
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| try it out, they even created a small web-startable version of the
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| HeapWalker that you can access here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=743">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=743</a>>
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| For full details, check out the NetBeans Profiler Milestone 2 project
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=744">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=744</a>>
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| NetBeans Hacks (Part 1)
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| Know the IDE like the back of your hand? Show us your everyday hacks
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| and tricks, and learn new ones, too! This collection of editor and
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| navigation hacks is the first in a series of the best tech tips
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| collected by the NetBeans community.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=745">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=745</a>>
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| NetBeans Server-Skeleton Module Tutorial
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| NetBeans IDE provides support (out of the box!) for the Sun Java System
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| Application Server, JBoss, WebLogic, and Tomcat. But what if you're
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| using a different server? Why not work on creating a NetBeans module for
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| your favorite server? This tutorial gives you a skeleton -- a framework,
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| on top of which you can build your own server support module. Now
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| updated for NetBeans IDE 5.5 Beta 2! Downloadable source code included!
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=746">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=746</a>>
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| The Future of NetBeans
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| Artima spoke with NetBeans evangelist Tim Boudreau about new NetBeans
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| features and about the NetBeans community. In Part I of this interview,
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| he discusses upcoming features of NetBeans 6.0, and compares the
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| NetBeans and Eclipse approaches to open-source IDE development.
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| Part I - <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=747">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=747</a>>
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| In the second installment of his interview with Artima, Tim talks about
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| the NetBeans rich-client platform, how the NetBeans Matisse UI builder
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| and GroupLayout layout manager address the challenges of cross-platform
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| and internationalized UI design, and about support for languages other
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| than Java in NetBeans.
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| Part II - <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=748">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=748</a>>
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| 179 Java Teachers to Teach NetBeans in China!
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| This is true. 179 Java teachers in China indicate that they are going
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| to teach NetBeans in their Java classes in the coming Fall semester!
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| Qingye Jiang (John) provides some interesting insight from the NetBeans
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| team in China.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=749">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=749</a>>
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| NetBeans Podcast #13
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| Topics include: Mobility Pack Open-Sourced, Enterprise pack features,
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| learning trails, Creator performance fix, findbugs module and more...
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=750">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=750</a>>
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| Hey! You Got Jini In My Grid!
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| DanT's GridBlog writes: "There's a really cool project that's been
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| developed by the Jini technology team for use on Sun Grid. It's called
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| ComputeServer. The idea is very simple but very powerful. If you're
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| interested in the Java platform and grid computing, you need to know
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| about ComputeServer..." which is available as a NetBeans plug-in.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=751">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=751</a>>
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| NetBeans Wiki Pages
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| Lukas writes, "I like wiki very much. It's easy to add/edit/update your
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| pages in a wiki. You don't have to edit it in an external editor. You
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| work directly in your browser. I like that it's collaborative tool as
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| well. When I made a mistake (grammar, typo etc.) anybody can fix it in
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| my document (I can do the same for others)..."
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=752">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=752</a>>
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| JUnit Test Support Changed to Use JMUnit Library in Mobility Pack
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| JUnit Test support was added in Mobility Pack 5.5 Beta 2. The support
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| used J2MEUnit library. It happened that the library was changed to
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| JMUnit library after the Beta 2. The main reasons was that it's newer
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| and the code is maintained. It shouldn't influence end users too much.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=753">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=753</a>>
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| Visual Library 2.0: Do you know what it is?
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| It hasn't been released yet, but you can already build it and use it to
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| test out its functionality. Geertjan has been doing just that and the
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| results of his investigations are divided in the following sections,
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| including many colorful illustrations featuring... the Simpsons! Here's
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| the list of topics in his blog so far, in chronological order from
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| first to last:
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| * Capturing the Simpsons:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=754">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=754</a>>
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| * In Place Editor in Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=755">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=755</a>>
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| * Zoom and Pan in Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=756">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=756</a>>
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| * Alignment and Satellite View in Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=757">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=757</a>>
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| * Selection and Connection in Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=758">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=758</a>>
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| * Other NetBeans APIs, Swing, and Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=759">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=759</a>>
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| * Maps and Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=760">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=760</a>>
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| * Swing Components and Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=761">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=761</a>>
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| * NetBeans Project Samples and Visual Library 2.0:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=762">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=762</a>>
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| UPDATED: JPDA (Java) Debugger Call Stack View Enhancements Module
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| The following new popup actions is now supported by the module:*** *
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| Show Classes... Show the table of all classes loaded in the debugee.
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| Each row in Classes table shows Class name, Package name and the value
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| returned by the toString() method of class's ClassLoader. This can be
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| useful for debugging applications such as App Servers, IDE Frameworks
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| (e.g. NetBeans itself), that employ a complex multi-ClassLoader
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| architecture. This view helps you determine which ClassLoader loaded the
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| class. To invoke the action right click on any call stack frame row in
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| the Calls Stack view of the debugger.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=763">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=763</a>>
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| Favorite File Types in Custom NetBeans Projects
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| Projects are at the heart of NetBeans and there are tonnes of Project
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| types in NetBeans for different types of programming needs in Java. You
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| have a project type in NetBeans for writing a Java Application, one for
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| a class library and some project types for web applications and if you
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| ever get so lucky (like me) to code some NetBeans modules, you will be
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| using project types! What's more, you can create your own project types.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=764">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=764</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robber Demmer.<br> |
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