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Issue # 347 - Jun 23, 2008
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<h1>Community</h1>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2155">Check Out the Redesigned NetBeans Community Portal!</a></h2>
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The NetBeans Community Portal has a brand new look! All the information you need to contribute to the NetBeans codebase, to develop your projects with the NetBeans IDE & Platform, and to engage with the NetBeans community is now available on one easy-to-navigate page! What can you find at the portal? Ways to:
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<li>Create modules for the NetBeans IDE and submit patches.
<li>Stay current about NetBeans product releases, community news and events around the world.
<li>Upload screencasts and event footage to NetBeans TV.
<li>Share your NetBeans expertise with other users by joining the mailing lists or writing tutorials.
<li>And more! </ul>
The NetBeans Community Portal is your gateway for participating in the NetBeans Project and growing the community. Visit the portal and get involved today!</p>
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<h1>Project News</h1>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2153">New Multithreaded Debugging Support in NetBeans IDE</a></h2>
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The NetBeans Debugger team has been working on a design to significantly improve debugging workflow and usability, with a focus on multithreaded debugging in the upcoming NetBeans IDE 6.5. A new powerful Debugging Window has been introduced that integrates sessions, threads, and call stacks. Learn more about additional features of the new Multithreaded Debugging support and give the team feedback.</p>
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<h1>Articles</h1>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2154">3 Ways to Become NetBeans Platform Savvy</a></h2>
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At JavaOne 2008, NetBeans Director of Core Engineering Arseniy Kuznetsov took a break from his busy schedule to give us the latest about the NetBeans Platform 6.1. Learn about cool applications built on the platform, the newly redesigned <a href="http://platform.netbeans.org/">NetBeans Platform resources page</a> and ways to become a certified NetBeans Platform Engineer!</p><br style="clear:both;"/>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2158">Advanced Web Service Interoperability In Easy Steps</a></h2>
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NetBeans Zone presents an in-depth article by NetBeans Engineer Martin Grebac about web service interoperability in NetBeans IDE 6.1, with many code snippets and illustrative screenshots.</p>
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<h1>Training</h1>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2150">Creating EJB3 Sessions Beans Using NetBeans 6.1 & Glassfish</a></h2>
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NetBeans 6.1 comes with features that make web development easier, and combined with the Glassfish Application Server is a good choice for working with EJB3 components as explained in this community-contributed tutorial from Jair Rillo Junior.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2151">Best Practices for Apache Maven in NetBeans IDE</a></h2>
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Learn to take full advantage of the NetBeans IDE's Apache Maven support with this tutorial that demonstrates importing, creating and working with Apache Maven-based projects in the IDE.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2152">Using the JBI JavaEE Service Engine</a></h2>
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A tutorial that shows how to use the JavaEE Service Engine in the NetBeans IDE to increase performance for EJB web services.</p>
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<h1>Blogs</h1>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2156">Taking the New Swing Tree Table for a Spin</a></h2>
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Geertjan Wielenga gives a primer on using evangelist Tim Boudreau's new tree table outside of the NetBeans Platform. He demonstrates with a useful example.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2157">Schema Aware XML Hyperlinking</a></h2>
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XML hyperlinking in NetBeans IDE could be better. Angad Singh and Varun Nischal are working on a way to hyperlink from elements and attributes to their DTD or schema definitions.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=2159">Tip: Using the Ruby IRB</a></h2>
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The tutorial divas give some pointers for using the Interactive Ruby (IRB) console in the NetBeans IDE.</p>
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