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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #251 - Jul 31, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #251 - Jul 31, 2006<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-07-31.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-07-31.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>[ANNOUNCE] NetBeans IDE 5.0 BlueJ Edition
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| This special edition of NetBeans IDE is a collaboration between the
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| NetBeans community and the University of Kent, England. The NetBeans
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| IDE BlueJ Edition is targeted at teachers and students familiar with
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| the popular BlueJ tool. The NetBeans BlueJ Edition helps you "make the
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| jump" from BlueJ to a full-featured IDE, either when your projects have
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| grown too big to fit comfortably into BlueJ, or when you want to use
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| features such as code completion and drag-and-drop GUI building, which
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| BlueJ doesn't directly support. To learn more about using BlueJ and
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| NetBeans in education see:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=655">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=655</a>>
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| NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2 with Application Server 9.0 Bundle Released
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| One week after the release of NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2, a bundle that
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| combines NetBeans and Sun Application Server 9.0 is also available. Sun
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| Java System Application Server 9.0 is based on open source Project
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| Glassfish, and is the first complete implementation of the Java EE 5
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| platform. This bundle provides all the tools and runtimes needed to
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| start developing Java EE 5 applications, including the Java DB database
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| (based on the Apache Derby project), in a single integrated package.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=656">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=656</a>>
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| Last Call - Free 10-week "AJAX Programming" Online Course Begins Aug 4th
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| This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or
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| increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students
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| learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX
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| frameworks and toolkits such as Dojo toolkit, jMaki, Google Web Toolkit,
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| and AJAX-fied JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. Each lecture will be
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| followed by a hands-on lab session using NetBeans IDE 5.0 or 5.5 Beta.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=671">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=671</a>>
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| NetBeans WorldTour Enters Second Year
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| After the wildly popular series of NetBeans events between NetBeans
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| Software Day 2005 and 2006 in San Francisco, the NetBeans team will
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| once again hit the road for a WorldTour in 2006/2007. Check out the
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| preliminary list of upcoming locations.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=657">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=657</a>>
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| Mevenide Maven2 NetBeans Integration 2.2 Released
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| Milos Kleint and the Mevenide team have announced the release of
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| Mevenide2 NetBeans 2.2. It allows you to open existing Maven2 projects
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| in the IDE, create new projects, helps with writing the Maven project
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| files and more. This latest stable version works with NetBeans IDE 5.0
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| and also the NetBeans IDE 5.5 Beta.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=658">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=658</a>>
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| Developing GUIs on Mac OS X
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| NetBeans developers have gone out of their way to make using NetBeans
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| on Macintosh a delight for both the seasoned programmer and beginner
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| alike. Project Matisse allows you to create a truly cross-platform UI,
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| just by dragging and dropping.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=659">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=659</a>>
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| Understanding the Travel Reservation Service
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| The TravelReservationService is a sample business process provided with
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| NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 Early Access. The process acts as a
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| logical aggregator of other services and is based on business logic
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| typical of a travel reservation system.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=660">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=660</a>>
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| Rendering Nodes Creatively
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| When developing NetBeans modules, how do you render your nodes? In a
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| tree structure, probably. Do you know that you could also render those
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| same nodes as icons? In a combobox? In a menu button? A lot more is
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| possible than you think, with the org.openide.explorer.view package.
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| And it really couldn't be simpler. Geertjan's blog tells you all about it:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=661">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=661</a>>
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| BlueMarine from Tidalwave - Application of the Week
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| The Java Posse have named BlueMarine by Tidalwave as application of the
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| week. BlueMarine is a Java application for supporting the digital photo
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| workflow. It includes tools for managing, organizing, editing, and
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| publishing photos. The latest releases also added support for
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| GeoTagging. See a screenshot:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=663">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=663</a>>
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| The application is now based on NetBeans and OpenIDE. At the moment,
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| Early Access builds are available. For more information vist:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=664">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=664</a>>
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| Fabrizio Guidici has also written a recent blog "A better integration for
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| NetBeans IDE applications in the Mac OS X environment.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=665">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=665</a>>
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| The IDE's Output Window in Your Own Application?
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| Hermann Matthes started an interesting thread on the nbdev mailing list
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| on the question of how to include the NetBeans IDE Output window in
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| your own rich-client application. And... at the end he got it to work!
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| Have a look at the discussion, which ended here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=670">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=670</a>>
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| Java Web Start: NetBeans vs. Eclipse
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| "I will have to work on the deployment of an Eclipser RCP application
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| via Java Web Start," writes the author of Application-Servers,com, in
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| French. "NetBeans 5.0 could perhaps facilitate work for me... On this
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| subject, NetBeans seems better equipped that Eclipse." Read more about
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| it here, in French:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=662">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=662</a>>
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| NetBeans... In Action at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth!
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| Last week we reported that the Open University uses NetBeans to teach
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| Java. Guess what? If you go to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
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| you will find NetBeans in use there too. Chris Loftus, the course
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| instructor, wrote to tell us about the Server-Side Software Development
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| course: (<<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=666">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=666</a>> and the
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| Distributed Systems Project course:
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| (<<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=667">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=667</a>>.
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| Both make use of NetBeans IDE! Do you know of other universities and
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| colleges using NetBeans out there? Write and let us know!
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| NetBeans Evandalists Go to Space
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| "Few people know that Java SE originally stood for Java Spaceship
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| Edition. Now that the space shuttle has landed safely, we can finally
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| tell the truth about what really happened up there, and how NetBeans,
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| once more, saved the day." Check out Ruth's latest 2 part cartoon:
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| Part I: <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=668">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=668</a>>
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| Part II: <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=669">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=669</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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