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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #238 - May 03, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #238 - May 03, 2006<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-05-03.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-05-03.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>13 DAYS TO GO BEFORE NETBEANS DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO
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| Java Puzzlers authors Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter join James Gosling &
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| other Java luminaries. Register now for your chance at cool freebies.
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| May 15, 2006, Argent Hotel, San Francisco. It is a no cost event and
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| you do not need to be registered for JavaOne.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=432">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=432</a>>
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| NetBeans Hands-On Labs at JavaOne '06
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| Developers are telling us they love hands-on labs because they learn
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| new and exciting Java technologies by actually getting their hands
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| dirty. The popularity of hands-on labs was in fact proven in previous
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| JavaOne conferences. This year, there will be 19 instructor-led hands-
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| on labs and 18 non-instructor-led labs, which include several labs that
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| will let JavaOne attendees to learn and explore the exciting features
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| of NetBeans. For a list of these NetBeans related labs and other JavaOne
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| conference activities continue here.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=433">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=433</a>>
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| Nominations for NetBeans Community Awards
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| There are many dedicated people in the NetBeans Community - we'd like to
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| recognise them and say thank you for all they've done for NetBeans.
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| Whether their contributions have come in the form of evangelising,
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| contributing code or bug fixes, building modules, writing articles,
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| localisations, or something else entirely, it's time to acknowledge
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| their efforts. Tell us who you think deserves recognition - nominate
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| someone for the NetBeans Community Award.
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| Current nominees are : Tom Wheeler, Wade Chandler, Michael Nascimento,
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| Ramón Ramos, Nicholas Désy, Chuck Davis, Edgar Silva, Alex Lam, Tim
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| Lebedkov.
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| Send your nominations to nbsicsuss@netbeans.org, with a few words about
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| why you think your nominee should win. If you'd prefer not to post
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| your nomination to a public list, send it to webmaster@netbeans.org.
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| Be quick - nominations close on Friday 5th May. Once the nominations
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| are all in, the voting period will run until Friday, May 12th.
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| Sun Microsystems & Ricoh Strengthen Java ME Developer Community
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| Plans have been announced to support Ricoh Corporation's Embedded
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| Software Architecture Software Development Kit/J (SDK/J) software in
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| the next release of NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC. The combination of
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| NetBeans' rich visual development environment and Ricoh's Java Platform,
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| Micro Edition (Java ME) enabled printer and document management
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| platform, will provide a unique solution for developers in the document
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| management marketplace. Continue to the full press release.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=434">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=434</a>>
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| Under the Hood of NetBeans 5.5
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| Geertjan writes, "NetBeans IDE 5.5 will totally redefine the word
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| "productivity". I mean, forget wimpy little bits of code, pretty little
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| samples, and obsequious hints and suggestions. Think big. How big? Well,
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| how big can you think? That's how big, plus a little bit of extra
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| bigness added on top." Be sure to check out his two part look at the
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| Best Feature of NetBeans IDE 5.5.
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| Part I: <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=436">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=436</a>>
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| Part II: <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=437">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=437</a>>
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| If you are still wondering how NetBeans 5.5 will help to change your
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| life visit Martin Adamek's, What's New in NetBeans 5.5.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=438">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=438</a>>
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| NetBeans Japanese Speaking Community Web Site Has Been Opened!
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| You are always welcome to provide translation, articles, your product
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| knowledge, feedback, or any other things what you think it's better to
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| share in Japanese speaking community! More info in Japanese at:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=439">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=439</a>>
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| Developing Java Applications for Pocket PCs Using NetBeans -
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| A Dream or Reality?
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| A recently released preview of Mobility Pack for CDC allows development
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| of Java applications for Symbian based devices, in particular for the
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| Sony Ericsson P990 and Nokia Series 80, which feature a CDC
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| configuration with Personal Profile. Unfortunately, the tool cannot be
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| used out of box with one of the platforms, which is quite widespread
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| these days,- PDAs running Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system.
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| Luckily, because of extremely versatile build system used in NetBeans,
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| it is not difficult to a basic support for deploying and running the
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| developed application on a Pocket PC device (or emulator).
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=440">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=440</a>>
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| Micro Devices, Macro Mobility
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| Tune in for demos and discussion as Sun and Sprint experts outline the
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| wealth of opportunities for development and delivery with the NetBeans
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| 5.0 Mobility Pack, Java ME, and the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit - the
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| focus of this month's SDN Channel.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=441">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=441</a>>
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| Defining and Using Preprocessor Directives in the Mobility Pack
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| This article provides a guide to the preprocessor syntax used by the
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| Mobility Pack for MIDP/CLDC to support its device fragmentation solution.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=442">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=442</a>>
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| Help Spread NetBeans Virally with the Profiler
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| This is an interesting blog entry by Cote, a Software Industry Analyst
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| with Redmonk. To take a direct quote, "Put another way, the NetBeans
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| Profiler was the reason I started using NetBeans again. While I didn't
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| use it for development, I downloaded and installed it, and I'd be lying
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| if I said I didn't think of trying out NetBeans again for development."
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=443">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=443</a>>
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| JPA - NetBeans 5.5 Versus Eclipse Dali
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| Martin Adamek has prepared a blog taking a look at Java Persistence API
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| support which is one of the key features in the upcoming NetBeans 5.5
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| release. He compares latest daily build of NetBeans 5.5 with 0.5M2
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| build of Eclipse Dali.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=444">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=444</a>>
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| NetBeans Evandalists Cartoon
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| They are cool. They are witty. Spreading Java technology is their
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| mission. NetBeans is their IDE. This cartoon is not about them. It's
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| about their dyslectic little brothers -- the NetBeans Evandalists!
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| Brought to you by Ruth Kusterer.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=445">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=445</a>>
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| Case Insensitive Code Completion
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| Code completion's sensitivity will be changed for NetBeans 6.0. Roumen
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| discusses this topic in his blog and explains how to change the
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| sensitivity in the Options dialog:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=446">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=446</a>>
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| Most Poetic Commit Log of the Year Award
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| "What's the most amusing commit message you've read but neither incited
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| nor written yourself?" Take a look at one such entry in Tim's blog.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=447">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=447</a>>
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| Guess the Glyph - Another Week of Winners
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| The latest round of the Glyph competition has ended and here are the
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| winners: Hugues Ferland (Canada), Lv Shuxun (China), Petrus Rademeyer
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| (South Africa), Agnieszka Meller (Poland) and Avi Schwartz (USA).
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| You can read more about the competition and take part here.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=448">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=448</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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