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| <h1>Handy Guides – Books About Developing with NetBeans</h1> |
| <span style="font-style: italic;">August 2007</span><br> |
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| <br> |
| Although we live in an increasingly web-centric world, there are still |
| some experiences that cannot be easily replicated online. Leafing |
| through a good reference book is one of them.<br> |
| <br> |
| The NetBeans.org site is a useful and dynamic repository of |
| online <a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/kb.html">articles</a> and <a |
| href="https://netbeans.org/kb/index.html">tutorials</a> that covers |
| a wide range of development |
| topics for multiple levels of users, but recent and past |
| published <a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/books.html">books |
| about NetBeans</a> show that information in hard copy can still be |
| as rich and as useful as that found online. In fact, books |
| sometimes offer an advantage over an online database of |
| tutorials in that they can comfortably contain and relate several |
| themes to create a comprehensive picture about their subject matter, a |
| task that isolated tutorials may not always do well.<br> |
| <img style="width: 119px; height: 158px;" |
| src="../../images_www/articles/nbplatformbk.jpg" |
| alt="NetBeans Platform book" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5"><br> |
| Another |
| benefit—a small, yet significant one, some might argue—to |
| old-fashioned printing that online technology has not completely |
| perfected yet? Hassle-free portability. Books travel well and a |
| wireless connection is not needed to use them!<br> |
| <br> |
| Hardcovers and paperbacks still matter, and luckily for NetBeans |
| users, each year brings fresh titles that focus on programming with the |
| NetBeans IDE and Platform, or that feature the use of NetBeans |
| software. (For example, a book might contain a CD of the IDE.)<br> |
| <br> |
| This year, two noteworthy reference books about NetBeans that have been |
| published are the multiple-authored <a |
| href="http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0132354802,00.html">Rich |
| Client Programming: Plugging |
| into the NetBeans Platform</a>, and Adam Myatt's <a |
| href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590597885%3ftag=trainer-20%26link_code=sp1%26camp=2025%26dev-t=DS7IYE86PUPZD">Pro |
| NetBeans IDE 5.5 |
| Enterprise Edition</a>.<br> |
| <br> |
| Written by three people who know a lot about NetBeans—NetBeans |
| evangelist Tim Boudreau, Jaroslav Tulach, one of the founders of |
| NetBeans, and <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/">Geertjan |
| Wielenga</a>, a NetBeans technical writer—the <span |
| style="font-style: italic;">Rich |
| Client Programming</span> book is a guide to creating desktop Java |
| applications on top of the improved NetBeans Platform. The wide-ranging |
| book highlights the advantages of modular development while covering |
| topics such as using NetBean's productivity features and modular |
| architecture, creating multi-windowed |
| applications, integrating web services with NetBeans desktop |
| applications, and more. <img alt="Pro NetBeans" |
| src="../../images_www/articles/pro-netbeans55.jpg" |
| style="width: 119px; height: 158px;" align="right" hspace="5" |
| vspace="5"><br> |
| <br> |
| Similarly, first-hand experience working with the NetBeans |
| software serves as the basis of <span style="font-style: italic;">Pro |
| NetBeans 5.5 Enterprise |
| Edition</span>. Author Adam Myatt, who is also a project leader and |
| systems analyst for General Electric Global Research, was an Eclipse |
| user before making |
| the |
| switch to NetBeans. Impressed with the straight-forward functionality |
| of the NetBeans IDE—version 5.0 at the time of his switch—he decided to |
| write a book about NetBeans for other Java |
| developers looking for an intuitive-to-use and feature-rich development |
| environment. <span style="font-style: italic;">Pro NetBeans 5.5</span> |
| is a broad guide to the IDE, with a special focus on its Enterprise and |
| Visual Web capabilities. Topics covered include creating web |
| applications and web services projects, the IDE's UML support |
| features, EJBs and Java Persistence, refactoring, adding third-party |
| tools to the IDE, and more. The author also presents real-life case |
| studies.<br> |
| <br> |
| More titles about NetBeans are due out in the coming months, with some |
| set to coincide with the release of NetBeans 6.0 or that will cover the |
| new features supported in the release. Adam Myatt, for |
| example, will add a second book to his Pro NetBeans series: <a |
| href="http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Netbeans-Rich-Client-Platform/dp/1590598954">Pro |
| NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition</a>.<br> |
| <br> |
| <img alt="Mastering NetBeans Chinese" |
| src="../../images_www/articles/netbeans-chinese.gif" |
| style="width: 119px; height: 158px;" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5">International |
| publications cannot be overlooked. This year has produced |
| three books about |
| developing with the NetBeans IDE in the Indonesian, Chinese and |
| Portuguese |
| languages. Additional titles also to come in this area include |
| language editions of already-published works such as the <span |
| style="font-style: italic;">Rich Client |
| Programming</span> book and Myatt's <span style="font-style: italic;">Pro |
| NetBeans 5.5</span>—both to be |
| published in Chinese. A <a |
| href="http://www.amazon.de/NetBeans-6-Rich-Client-Entwicklung-mit-Java/dp/3836210665/">German |
| book about the 6.0 platform</a> has an |
| August publication date.<br> |
| <br> |
| The growing number of NetBeans titles reflects the favorable position |
| that NetBeans commands among IDEs today, and as NetBeans continues to |
| evolve and attract more users, the demand for books about working with |
| the IDE is sure to rise. This bodes well for all users as adding a book |
| or two to their library will be another great way of deepening their |
| knowledge of NetBeans.<br> |
| <br> |
| Books about NetBeans can be ordered from various online booksellers or |
| purchased the old-fashioned way—from a local bookstore.<br> |
| <br> |
| <h2>More Information</h2> |
| <br> |
| Visit the <a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/books.html">NetBeans |
| Books Page</a> for current and past titles.<br> |
| <br> |
| <a href="http://www.pronetbeans.com/">Pro NetBeans Site</a><br> |
| <br> |
| <a |
| href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/interview_with_author_of_pro">Interview</a> |
| and <a |
| href="http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_podcast_episode_27_interview">Podcast</a> |
| with Adam Myatt about <span style="font-style: italic;">Pro |
| NetBeans 5.5 Enterprise |
| Edition</span><br> |
| <br> |
| <a |
| href="http://www.safaribooksonline.com/whatsnew/geertjan-wielenga.php">Interview</a> |
| and <a |
| href="http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_podcast_episode_24_interview">Podcast</a> |
| with Geertjan Wielenga about <span style="font-style: italic;">Rich |
| Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform</span><br> |
| <br> |
| <h4>Upcoming Books</h4> |
| Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform (Chinese, |
| Oct. 07; Spanish)<br> |
| Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition (Chinese, Sept. 07)<br> |
| Mastering NetBeans 5.5 (Chinese, Oct. 07)<br> |
| <br> |
| <span style="font-style: italic;">Have you purchased a book about |
| NetBeans |
| recently? Please write a review |
| about it at online stores (Amazon, et.al), on your blog or in |
| discussion forums!<br> |
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