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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #192 - Mar 15, 2005</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #192 - Mar 15, 2005<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-03-15.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-03-17.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>NetBeans IDE 4.1 Beta Now Available |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html">https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html</a>> |
| The NetBeans 4.1 IDE delivers out-of-the-box support for building Java 2 |
| Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology applications, including |
| Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component architectures and Web services, |
| without having to search for an array of plug-in modules. This release, |
| available since February 25, has over 15 new modules for developing |
| enterprise applications and is built on the breakthrough NetBeans 4.0 |
| technology. For more information on the 4.1 release visit: |
| <<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050309/sfw055_2.html">http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050309/sfw055_2.html</a>> |
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| Versioning Control News (4.1 Beta) |
| NetBeans IDE 4.1 versioning support includes 5 major feature enhancements: |
| * improved reliability |
| * package view integration |
| * annotation styles |
| * status sensitive actions |
| * action default values |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/projects/obsolete/releases/41/whatisnew.html">https://netbeans.org/projects/obsolete/releases/41/whatisnew.html</a>> |
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| "Switch to NetBeans" |
| A new program offering a simple and easy-to-implement transition of |
| current development projects to the NetBeans IDE has begun. As part of |
| the switch program NetBeans 4.1 Beta download offers a "Import Eclipse |
| Module" and full documentation. Now is the time to get your friends |
| and colleagues on boards with NetBeans. Just point them toward: |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/switch/">https://netbeans.org/switch/</a>> |
| Top Ten Reasons to Switch to NetBeans |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/switch/why.html">https://netbeans.org/switch/why.html</a>> |
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| Why Eclipse Developers Are Moving To NetBeans |
| This is a very nice entry written by Charles Ditzel and certainly worth |
| a read through. If you have been following industry news in recent times |
| you are sure to understand where he is coming from: |
| <<a href="http://cld.blog-city.com/read/1126337.htm">http://cld.blog-city.com/read/1126337.htm</a>> |
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| Using NetBeans to Develop with the eBay SDK for Java |
| This tutorial demonstrates how to get up and running with the eBay SDK |
| for Java. By using NetBeans 4.0 to develop your eBay applications, you'll |
| have the added productivity of code completion, Javadoc help, code |
| compilation, execution and debugging all from inside the NetBeans IDE. |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/ebay-sdk.html">https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/ebay-sdk.html</a>> |
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| Better Profiling through Code Hotswapping: |
| Sun's Misha Dmitriev, Project Lead for the JFluid profiling tool, discusses |
| the origins, development, and future of JFluid. |
| <<a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/Dmitriev_qa.html">http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/Dmitriev_qa.html</a>> |
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| NetBeans IDE Book Excerpts: More Draft Chapters |
| The NetBeans IDE Field Guide is planned for release by Prentice Hall in June |
| 2005 and will cover NetBeans IDE 4.1. New Draft chapters covering J2EE are |
| now downloadable in PDF format from: |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/NBFieldGuide.html">https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/NBFieldGuide.html</a>> |
| |
| Safari Search Plug-in for NetBeans |
| The Safari Search Plug-in for NetBeans (SSPN), is a combined effort by |
| Safari and Sun Microsystems Inc. The Plug-in provide an entry point to the |
| vast resources of O'Reilly and other book publishers through the Netbeans IDE. |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#587">https://netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#587</a>> |
| </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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