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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #233 - Mar 28, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #233 - Mar 28, 2006<br> |
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| <hr><pre>***** Maintenance Outage this Weekend Saturday 1st April, 8PM GMT *****
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| NetBeans Day San Francisco May 15th, 2006
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| Space is limited so register today.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=365">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=365</a>>
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| NetBeans Set to Rock Las Vegas
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| Key mobile players NetBeans, Nokia and Sprint, will be presenting on
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| what's happening with Java ME and NetBeans. With great door prizes and
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| networking opportunities, this is a can't miss event for Java ME
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| developers. Be there April 5, 2006 at Harrah's Las Vegas.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=347">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=347</a>>
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| [ANNOUNCE] NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0 for CDC
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| The CDC pack is available as an add-on to NetBeans IDE. CDC configuration
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| is more powerful than CLDC and it is usually available on smart phones
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| and PDAs. With many new exciting features you can utilize NetBeans GUI
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| Builder Matisse for designing the user interface of your application.
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| Mobility Everywhere!
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=348">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=348</a>>
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| NetBeans is a Winner in the Mobile Development Tools Category
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| See a screenshot of the award on Lukas Hasik's weblog.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=349">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=349</a>>
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| [ANNOUNCE] NetBeans IDE 5.0 Localizations
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| The latest 5.0 release is now available in Simplified Chinese and
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| Japanese. But did you know that there is work currently under way in
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| other languages? If you want to get involved or just take a look at what
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| is taking place visit the translated files home page.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=350">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=350</a>>
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| Simplified Chinese release notes:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=366">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=366</a>>
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| Japanese release notes:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=367">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=367</a>>
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| SIZZLING HOT INFORMATION - Project Matisse Roadmap
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| NetBeans GUI builder, also known as Matisse, went through a significant
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| redesign in the 5.0 release focusing on radically simplifying Desktop
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| Java layout design. If you are curious where this innovation is headed
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| you don't have to wait any longer. Check this out!
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=351">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=351</a>>
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| Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery - Cramer Speaks at EclipseCon
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| Sun's Director of Java Tools, Tim Cramer, spoke at EclipseCon and
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| explained that Matisse4MyEclipse is good for the Java Community.
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| Coverage in Ed Burnette's blog.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=352">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=352</a>>
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| Sun Provides Developer Expert Assistance for NetBeans
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| The Sun Developer Expert Assistance is now available for NetBeans users.
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| It is an email-based program that provides how-to help on a per-incident
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| basis with a 24-hour turnaround time. Available for NetBeans IDE 5.0.
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| Read more:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=353">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=353</a>>
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| Reviewing Recent Announcements
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| Vance McCarthy has a nice recap of all the recent NetBeans news
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| highlights also includes comments from Dan Roberts. This covers C/C++
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| Source Code Plug-in Support, Enterprise Service Pack for Mac Developers,
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| Update to Java Web Services Developer Pack and of course MyEclipse
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| bringing NetBeans GUI Builder to Eclipse.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=354">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=354</a>>
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| The Strangest NetBeans Splash Screen Ever
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| Have you seen the dev build from 23rd March 2006? It contains a really
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| strange splash screen. See Roumen's blog for a screenshot...
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=355">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=355</a>>
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| An Extension Fiesta - Eight New NetBeans Plug-ins
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| Charles Ditzel takes a look at the latest batch of new and free
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| plug-ins for the NetBeans IDE. Read about there right here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=356">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=356</a>>
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| Is it a Plug-in or a Module?
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| Charles Ditzel is asking which term do you prefer. What do you think?
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| Should they be called Plug-ins or Modules? Cast your vote here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=357">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=357</a>>
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| BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), Part 2
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| This article is for developers using the NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5
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| Preview Release. The second in a series, it illustrates with code
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| examples how to define and apply the partnerLinkType and partnerLink
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| elements in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=358">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=358</a>>
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| NetBeans Software Day Brazil - April 10 & 11
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| NetBeans Evangelists Tim Boudreau, Roman Strobl and Petr Suchomel will
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| speak in April on two NetBeans Software Days in Brazil.
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| Sao Paulo on April 10th 2006 in the Hotel Transamerica
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=359">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=359</a>>
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| and in Brasilia on April 11th 2006
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=360">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=360</a>>
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| Three Cities, Three Questions
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| Gregg Sporar has recently traveled to Houston, London and Madrid. In his
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| blog he responds to three frequently asked questions from his journey.
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| 1) Why should I use NetBeans?
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| 2) Why does Sun have three Java IDEs?
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| 3) How did you get the i18n stuff working?
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=364">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=364</a>>
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| Sun Community Champion - Xu Bin
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| Xu Bin of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, has been named "Sun
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| Community Champion" for his work with the Java and NetBeans communities.
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| He's the faculty adviser to the Java Users Group (JUG) at Tsinghua
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| University. Continue to the full article below.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=361">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=361</a>>
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| Sun Appoints Charlie Hunt to Governance Board
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| Charlie Hunt is a Java Performance Engineer at Sun Microsystems and co-
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| author of the widely selling book NetBeans IDE Field Guide. He has been
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| working with Java since 1997 and has held many positions at Sun
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| Microsystems, including Java Architect, NetBeans Technology Evangelist
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| and Java Performance Engineer. Congratulations Charlie! For information
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| on the Governance Board visit:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=362">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=362</a>>
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| Guess the Glyph - First Week Winners Announced
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| The first weekly Glyph competition has ended and we are announcing the
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| winners here first in the nbweekly. They are:
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| * Luis Henrique Albinati Jr. - Brazil
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| * Sergey Belov - Russia
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| * Jaroslaw Meller - Poland
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| * Khaja Mohammad - India
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| * Ramon Omar Mata Rodriguez - Mexico
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| To take part in the competition and have a chance at winning a 5.0
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