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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #229 - Feb 20, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #229 - Feb 20, 2006<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-02-20.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-02-20.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>Governance Board Nominations - Last Call
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| It's time again to elect a new NetBeans Governance Board! All the
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| information that you need to take part in the elections can be found here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=281">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=281</a>>
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| NetBeans Day Singapore
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| Join the NetBeans Team at NetBeans Day Singapore on February 24th, 2006.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=303">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=303</a>>
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| NetBeans Day JavaOne 2006 - Registration is Open
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| NetBeans Software Day 2006 will take place on Monday, May 15, 2006 at the
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| Argent Hotel in San Francisco. It is a companion event to the JavaOne
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| conference which begins the following day. NetBeans Software Day is free
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| for anyone who wishes to attend. Space is limited, so register now.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=293">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=293</a>>
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| Cool New NetBeans Gear
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| Order t-shirts, mugs, mousepads and much more at the completely revamped
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| online shop. Choose from NetBeans.org, 5.0 and Glyph styled merchandise.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=294">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=294</a>>
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| Fell in Love with NetBeans Platform
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| Roumen prepared a "fast and furious" demo of NetBeans platform which shows
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| its power. This is his first demo in the whole series of platform demos
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| which will follow it:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=295">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=295</a>>
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| Pick a Target JDK for a Freeform Project in NetBeans
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| NetBeans guru Jesse Glick posted a tool to assist in building and running a
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| "freeform" project using a different JDK from what NetBeans is running on.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=302">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=302</a>>
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| NetBeans APIs go Java5
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| Since the official release of NetBeans 5.0 work has continued and a few
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| new milestones have been reached. The daily auto update center can include
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| modules that can be built with Java 5 only and the development version of
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| javadoc is now built with JDK1.5. More information:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=296">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=296</a>>
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| Mark Occurrences Module Available on Development Update Center
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| Sandip Chitale's Mark Occurrences module is now available on Development
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| Update Center.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=297">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=297</a>>
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| Mevenide for NetBeans 1.0 Final (Maven1 support)
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| The mevenide team have announced the final version of Maven1 support for
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| NetBeans IDE. The released set of NetBeans modules allows it to work with
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| Maven1 projects in the IDE, without imports or additional configurations.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=298">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=298</a>>
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| [Tip] Repair WTK after Reinstallation of JDK
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| Java Development Kit (JDK) is evolving and they release new versions of
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| the JDK fairly often. If you install the latest JDK and uninstall the old
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| JDK the Wireless Toolkit stops working. Find out how to solve this issue.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=299">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=299</a>>
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| German NetBeans Forum Started
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| The newly founded Java and NetBeans Forum at smurfi.de keeps you up-to-
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| date with NetBeans, Java and Linux related news in German. Join the Forum
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| and discuss IDE features, the Platform, Tutorials, new NetBeans releases
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| and Plug-In development with other NetBeans enthusiasts, and get quick
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| help with Java questions.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=300">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=300</a>>
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| Training the Trainer
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| Java instructors who work for the Sun Education department will be
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| delivering their trainings via NetBeans IDE. What this means is that
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| they won't be using text files and command line procedures anymore, but
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| the wizards and templates that NetBeans IDE provides. Read all about the
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| process of retraining the Java instructors to use NetBeans IDE in
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| Geertjan's blog, starting with this entry:
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| http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=301</pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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