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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #201 - Jun 09, 2005</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #201 - Jun 09, 2005<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-06-09.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-06-09.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>Register Today for the FREE NetBeans Software Day Event In San Francisco |
| You don't need to be attending JavaOne to attend NetBeans Day. Stay tuned for |
| more high profiler guest speakers. Don't pass up this great opportunity! |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2005/nb-day.html">https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2005/nb-day.html</a>> |
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| If you are attending JavaOne 2005 you can view the NetBeans activities here: |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2005/index.html">https://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2005/index.html</a>> |
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| Get Blown Away by the New NetBeans GUI Builder! Developing a graphical user |
| interface (GUI) used to be a tricky part of Java programming. Developers old |
| and new to Swing often spend countless frustrating hours poring over layout |
| code. Even with the help of advanced GUI builders such as the NetBeans IDE 4.1 |
| Form Editor, designing professional-looking, cross- platform GUIs can be a |
| tedious and error-prone task. The next release of NetBeans IDE will resolve |
| all these issues, because a vastly improved GUI Builder will be included. If |
| you want to get blown away by a preview of the new GUI Builder, try out Roman |
| Strobl's interactive demo on JavaLobby: |
| <<a href="http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t18969.html">http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t18969.html</a>> |
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| Interview with NetBeans Director of Engineering |
| The ServerSide has a really interesting interview with Tim Cramer, the director |
| of engineering for NetBeans. He answers questions such as: "How many people are |
| using NetBeans today?" and "How would you differentiate NetBeans from Eclipse?" |
| Read all about it right here: |
| <<a href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=34315">http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=34315</a>> |
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| Switching to NetBeans |
| There continue to be signs that an increasing number of developers are switching |
| to NetBeans. One recent convert is Li Haijun, who motivates his decision and |
| provides some resources in his blog. Click here to see for yourself: |
| <<a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/coreteam/20050516">http://www.jroller.com/page/coreteam/20050516</a>>. |
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| JMX and NetBeans IDE 4.1 |
| The JMX specification defines an architecture, the design patterns, the APIs, and |
| the services for application and network management and monitoring in the Java |
| programming language. To find out about this technology in general, go here: |
| <<a href="http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement">http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement</a>>. |
| Recently a JMX-NetBeans module was released. You can find it in the Update Center. |
| To get everything up and running quickly and smoothly, read the new "Getting Started |
| with the New JMX NetBeans Module" here: |
| <<a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/archive/index.html">https://netbeans.org/kb/archive/index.html</a>> |
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| Thinlet Support for NetBeans |
| Thinlet simplifies development by letting you define your application's GUI in an XML |
| file. Did you know that you can use the Update Center to very easily integrate Thinlet |
| support in NetBeans IDE? If not, go here to find out all about it: |
| <<a href="http://thinnb.dev.java.net/">http://thinnb.dev.java.net/</a>> |
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| Building Secure Enterprise Beans in NetBeans IDE |
| NetBeans IDE 4.1 does not contain support for the security features of the enterprise |
| tier. This means that the deployment descriptor visual editors for enterprise |
| applications do not contain fields to automatically configure security settings. These |
| features are coming in future releases, but in the meantime you have to configure the |
| deployment descriptors by hand. This is really not as complicated as it seems. Find out |
| more about it here: <<a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/archive/index.html">https://netbeans.org/kb/archive/index.html</a>> |
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| Breaking Through the Firewall |
| Want to use web services, but finding yourself stuck behind a firewall? Let NetBeans |
| evangelist Gregg Sporar help you out. He's blogged about this issue because he stumbled |
| across it himself. Go here to find out more: |
| <<a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2005/05/about_that_prox.html">http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2005/05/about_that_prox.html</a>> |
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| Java Hints Module |
| Roman Strobl provides some interesting information and screenshots about the new Java |
| hints module here: <<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen/20050603">http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen/20050603</a>>. The module is |
| available from the Update Center and if you want to know the development status and plans |
| in this area, go here: <<a href="http://java.netbeans.org/hints/index.html">http://java.netbeans.org/hints/index.html</a>> |
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| Make your Mobile Phone More Interesting! |
| Are you bored with only text displayed on your phone. Why not show an icon with your |
| midlets? You can add an icon to MIDlet suite and even to every MIDlet in suite. Let Lukas |
| Hasik tell you all about it here: |
| <<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/lukas/20050526">http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/lukas/20050526</a>> |
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| Many Servers Supported in NetBeans IDE 4.1... Which One to Choose? |
| Now that open-source plug-ins are available for the Sun Java System Application Server, |
| JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat, and WebSphere, you might be a bit overwhelmed. For example, how do |
| you decide which one should you use? Hmmm... why not ALL of them? Using Ant from NetBeans |
| IDE 4.x, you can smoothly manage deployment without a hitch. On top of that, by being able |
| to deploy to multiple J2EE 1.4 compliant servers, you can easily check whether your |
| application is J2EE 1.4 compliant. Read Geertjan's blog for details: |
| <<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan/20050601">http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan/20050601</a>> |
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| More NetBeans Bloggers! |
| NetBeans-related blogs just are really beginning to mushroom. Recently two new bloggers joined |
| the frey: Technical writer John Jullion-Ceccarelli <<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/johnc">http://blogs.sun.com/johnc</a>> and quality |
| engineer Lubomir Cincura <<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/easy">http://blogs.sun.com/easy</a>>. Check out their blogs and learn from |
| their experience -- don't hesitate to ask questions, that's what it's all about. Are there |
| other NetBeans bloggers that haven't been mentioned in the NetBeans Weekly Newsletter? Write |
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