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| hspace="5" vspace="5"></a>NetBeans |
| Day 2007 Partner Showcase</h1> |
| <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">NetBeans |
| recognizes companies that have made significant contributions to the |
| NetBeans Project through its <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/community/partners/">Partner Program</a> |
| and with speaking invitations to NetBeans Day. Attend these Partner |
| sessions that showcase exciting and new plug-ins, and discover ways |
| to extend and get |
| the most out of the NetBeans IDE!</span><br> |
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| <h4>Speaker: Luan O'Carroll<br> |
| Session: <a href="http://www28.cplan.com/cc158/session_details.jsp?isid=288596&ilocation_id=158-1&ilanguage=english">Rapid |
| RIA with XUI and NetBeans (S288596)</a><br> |
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| <h4>What do you do at Xoetrope?</h4> |
| I'm the lead developer on the XUI project, and also the CEO. |
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| <h4>As a partner, how has your company contributed to the NetBeans |
| Project?</h4> |
| We have built the Kaideoscope plug-in, an Open Source editor for XUI. |
| We have also built the Carousel plug-in. Carousel is a collection of |
| add-ons for XUI and NetBeans; it adds lots of components and tools to |
| ease the process of building enterprise level applications. |
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| <h4>Tell us about your NetBeans Day Presentation.</h4> |
| I'm going make a presentation on building Rich Internet Applications |
| (RIA) using NetBeans and our plug-ins. RIAs can offer the best of the |
| Internet and the Desktop, but sometimes they don't live up to their |
| name. So in the presentation I will show some of the things we do to |
| ensure that we produce compelling applications. |
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| <h4>What's the top point that developers should know about your session?</h4> |
| This will be the first public showing of XUI 3.0 and the new NetBeans |
| plug-ins. We will demo the new software, showing some of the highlights |
| in the process. |
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| <h4>What are the benefits to the community?</h4> |
| All the tools are open-source (although the Carousel components require |
| a license for redistribution), so developers can try them out and use |
| them for free. The tools take care of much of the plumbing needed to |
| build RIAs, and developers can use all their normal Java skills. So, |
| it's a great way to get started with RIAs. |
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| <h4>What is the main message you want a developer to get after |
| attending your session?</h4> |
| That by using XUI and NetBeans you can very quickly build great desktop |
| applications. |
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| <h4>Why did you submit your session to be presented at NetBeans Day? |
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| NetBeans is our platform of choice, not just because we have plug-ins |
| for NetBeans but because of all the other facilities available. Without |
| NetBeans we would have had to reinvent lots of things. <br> |
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| <h4>What features do you enjoy working with in NetBeans?</h4> |
| We are pretty intensive users of NetBeans and we use a wide range of |
| features from the basic Java coding through to the profilers and |
| deployment tools. The Profiler is one of my favorites. |
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| <h4>How does working in Java compare with other technologies?</h4> |
| For us, Java is really the only choice. Many of the customer |
| applications we build need an efficient computing platform and one that |
| spans devices from handhelds to servers. Not only does Java give us |
| this, but it also gives us many of the capabilities that are essential |
| for RIAs. The Java platform also offers a level of consistency that we |
| would not have had with some of the other options, and this opinion is |
| reinforced almost every time we have to use something other than Java. |
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| Of course, that's not to say there aren't things we can learn from |
| other platforms and on the desktop this sort of competition is really |
| intense. We keep an eye on new developments for inspiration, but |
| fortunately there is such a range and depth of possibilities in Java |
| that there's usually a way of achieving similar results in Java. <br> |
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