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| <H1>NetBeans Software Day 2006 -- Empowering Developers Worldwide</H1> |
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| <div class="articledate" style="margin-left:0px;">By Ruth Kusterer, originally published on java.sun.com, |
| May 15, 2006</div> |
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| <P>It's like hitting the switch in a power station. The 12-city |
| <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/worldtour/">NetBeans IDE World Tour</a> is spreading like wildfire from Toronto to |
| Brasilia, from Tokyo to Johannesburg, and back to San Francisco. |
| Millions of Java technology developers already plug into NetBeans IDE |
| 5.0, and NetBeans IDE 5.5 is on its way to empower even more. |
| Registration numbers for NetBeans Software Day rose to new heights: |
| On Monday, May 15, 2006, about 1000 developers squeezed into one of |
| the bigger halls in San Francisco's Argent Hotel -- almost twice as |
| many as last year. What an electrifying year for the NetBeans |
| community. |
| </P> |
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| <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nbday2006-crowd.jpg" width="300" |
| alt="Picture of the crowd at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p> |
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| <P>NetBeans Software day at the <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2006/nb-day.html">JavaOne(SM) 2006</a> conference began |
| with Tim Cramer's opening keynote. Now senior director of Java Tools |
| at Sun, Cramer announced the Subversion support module that will be |
| included in the final release of the highly anticipated <A HREF="https://netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html">NetBeans IDE 5.5 release</a>. The latest beta is already a popular download among |
| developers, with improved versioning control and many more extended |
| Java enterprise, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Unified |
| Modeling Language (UML) features-- all right out of the box and |
| free. |
| </P> |
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| <P>Cramer revealed that the successful launches of NetBeans IDE 5.0 |
| and 5.5 beta have attracted over 100 <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/partners/index.html">commercial and community partners</a> this year, and more are joining each week. Among them are |
| Sprint, a global provider of communication services; InsiTech, a |
| contributor of ultra-thin rich-client Java interfaces; Lattix Inc., |
| the source of the Lightweight Dependency Models plug-in; Ricoh |
| Company Ltd., one of the leading global manufacturers of office |
| automation equipment; Apache Maven, with its project management and |
| comprehension tool; and SavaJe, the developer of the most advanced |
| Java technology-based mobile operating platform. And just today, |
| JBoss and AMD have joined, too. |
| </P> |
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| <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-1.jpg" width="200" |
| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" |
| /> <img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-2.jpg" width="200" |
| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p> |
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| <P>Cramer then handed the microphone to Jonathan Schwartz, the new |
| president and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, succeeding |
| the current chairman of the board of directors, Scott McNealy. |
| Schwartz himself introduced Rich Green, who recently returned to Sun |
| as chief of the software group and consequently had to bear some of |
| Schwartz's jokes. On a more serious note, Schwartz then pointed out |
| the importance of good tools, because his experience showed that |
| working with good tools increases the engineers' working morale |
| significantly. One pretty clear example for such a tool, Sprint's |
| NetBeans IDE-based Mobility IDE, was demonstrated live. |
| </P> |
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| <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-3.jpg" width="300" |
| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p> |
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| <P>But when Click and Hack, the Type-It Brothers, also known as |
| Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter, showed up onstage with a bunch of |
| optical illusions, the audience was a little puzzled. Bloch is the |
| chief Java architect at Google and author of the Jolt Award-winning |
| book, <I>Effective Java</I>. He is co-author of <I>JavaPuzzlers: |
| Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases</I>, together with his fellow |
| Google employee Neal Gafter, a software engineer and Java evangelist. |
| </P> |
| <P>Their presentation's connection to NetBeans Software Day soon |
| became clear when they proceeded to show code illusions: pieces of |
| code that seemed straightforward enough but that did not behave as |
| expected. What if the IDE could not only detect these common and |
| hard-to-notice errors for you but also fix them? Enter Tom Ball with |
| Jackpot, NetBeans IDE's new secret weapon. The audience broke into |
| applause at his presentation of Jackpot, which can be described as a |
| very advanced FindBugs plus Refactoring on steroids. The Jackpot |
| module is available for testing on the beta update center. |
| </P> |
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| <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-4.jpg" width="300" |
| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p> |
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| <P>Before the in-depth sessions started, Bob Brewin quickly talked |
| about Sun's tools strategy and the future of the four free IDEs -- |
| Sun Java Studio Creator (JSC), Sun Java Studio Enterprise (JSE), |
| NetBeans IDE, and Sun Studio. |
| </P> |
| <P>Do you mainly create rich web applications? Let JSC help you. Do |
| you specialize in SOA and enterprise applications? Try JSE. Do you |
| live on the leading edge? Try NetBeans IDE daily builds. Or are you |
| focusing on C/C++ development on the Solaris Operating Environment |
| and Linux operating system? Go with Sun Studio. These features will |
| become available over the course of this year in one standard |
| distribution of the NetBeans IDE. This process is starting now with |
| version 5.5 and the Enterprise Pack, and it will continue with the |
| release of the new native C/C++ support. |
| </P> |
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| <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nb-day06-7.jpg" width="300" |
| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p> |
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| <P>Apart from development for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| (Java EE) 5, the sessions that followed addressed the next generation |
| of GUI building, for example, Project Matisse; the advantages of |
| building rich client applications on the NetBeans platform; as well |
| as state-of-the-art mobile application development with NetBeans |
| Mobility Pack and the new SavaJe CDC pack. For each of these topics, |
| NetBeans software engineers and technology evangelists had prepared |
| live feature demonstrations for the attendees. |
| </P> |
| <P>The sessions were divided in two tracks: Track A gave an |
| exhaustive overview of SOA, enterprise, and mobile application |
| development, as well as interoperability of enterprise features |
| (Project Tango). Track B zoomed in on building user interfaces and |
| client applications, covering development tools for Java EE and Java |
| Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), as well as for the NetBeans |
| platform and the new Realtime Java Plug-in. The speakers also |
| answered burning questions from the audience. |
| </P> |
| <p><div align="center"><img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/nb_day/nbday2006-tom-wheeler.jpg" width="300" |
| alt="Picture of James Gosling awarding Tom Wheeler the NetBeans Community award" /></div></p> |
| <P>In the afternoon, the attendees reassembled for the closing |
| keynote by "the father of Java," James Gosling. Gosling has |
| initiated the Jackpot project and has worked on the Real-Time |
| Specification for Java (RTSJ). The current chief technology officer |
| of Sun's Developer Products group had the honor of awarding four |
| members of the NetBeans community with a certificate and a Sun Ultra |
| 20 workstation, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to |
| the ongoing project. Congratulations to Wade Chandler, Ramon Ramos, |
| David Strupl, and Tom Wheeler! |
| </P> |
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| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" |
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| alt="Picture: Developers at NetBeans Software Day 2006" /></div></p> |
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| <P>This day went by much too soon. But attendees took home more than |
| just the impressions of the <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=netbeans_worldtour_movie">energetic music clip featuring shots of |
| developers from all the world tour locations</a>. NetBeans Software Day |
| was an excellent opportunity for everyone to tap into the collective |
| brainpower of Java technology luminaries and fellow developers. And |
| award winners weren't the only ones to go home with a little |
| something extra in their conference backpacks: The first 400 |
| attendees through the door received a free copy of the new <I>NetBeans |
| IDE Field Guide</I> (second edition) and a 256 MB USB drive. |
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