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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #236 - Apr 19, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #236 - Apr 19, 2006<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-04-19.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-04-19.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>Joshua Block and Neil Gafter @ NetBeans Day San Francisco
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| NB Day will feature a keynote by Joshua Bloch and Neil Gafter who are
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| also known as "Click and Hack - The Type-It Brothers." The first four
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| hundred attendees will receive a free copy of the new NetBeans IDE
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| Field Guide (2nd Edition) and a 256mb USB drive. The event will be held
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| on Monday, May 15. It is a no cost event and you do not have to be
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| registered for JavaOne to attend. Seats are limited though, so register
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| now.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=402">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=402</a>>
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| Pre-order NetBeans IDE Field Guide, 2nd Edition
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| Gregg Sporar has just posted a blog entry talking about the upcoming
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| NetBeans 5.0 Field Guide. He provides an outline of the content in
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| addition to links on how to pre-order the book. The first edition was
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| very well received and there is no doubt that the 2nd will outshine the
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| first. If you don't want to buy the book get it for free by coming to
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| NetBeans Day (see above) or read more at Gregg's blog.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=403">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=403</a>>
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| NetBeans Software Day South Africa
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| Join the NetBeans Team May 2nd at NetBeans Software Day in
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| Johannesburg, South Africa. Many great prizes, presentations and more.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=404">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=404</a>>
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| InfoWorld Test Center's Rates NetBeans 5.0 Very Good
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| InfoWorld has reviewed NetBeans 5.0: "NetBeans 5.0 is a substantial
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| upgrade to what was already a very solid IDE. This release reveals many
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| new features, enhancements, and a slight repositioning, as Sun attempts
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| to shine the spotlight on aspects that take NetBeans beyond the pure-
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| play IDE."
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=405">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=405</a>>
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| Tim Cramer, Sun's Director of Developer Tools Interviewed
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| What did Tim Cramer say about the Matisse Port at EclipseCon? What
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| applications are using the NetBeans Rich Client Platform? How can I
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| create mobile applications? And why does Dick sound as if he was
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| interviewed in the bathroom? Find out in this PodCast.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=406">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=406</a>>
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| Plug-in Writing Contest Winners Announced
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| Last Monday, the winners were announced at NetBeans Day Sao Paulo. The
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| plug-ins were judged on criteria such as runtime quality, code quality,
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| originality and usefulness. Some plug-ins were developed by individuals,
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| some by teams. All are open-source.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=407">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=407</a>>
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| Creating a Flash Demo of NetBeans IDE
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| Want to create your own Flash demo of NetBeans IDE functionality?
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| Here's some steps to get you producing slick, professional looking
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| demos with free tools.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=408">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=408</a>>
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| Profiling J2EE Applications
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| This detailed guide for profiling web and enterprise applications
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| covers profiling different project types and deployment environments,
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| and provides some general facts and tips you should be aware of when
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| profiling your applications.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=409">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=409</a>>
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| Internationalizing a GUI Form in NetBeans IDE 5.0
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| The following tutorial shows you ways how to internationalize GUI forms
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| more easily. Among other things, it covers the use of the NetBeans GUI
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| Builder's string editor and the Internationalization wizard.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=410">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=410</a>>
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| Designing Patterns With UML
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| By virtue of their seamlessness, clarity, and versatility, design
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| patterns in Unified Modeling Language are a tremendous help for
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| software architectures. This article describes the pattern types and
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| the procedures for creating them and applying them to application
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| components in NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=411">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=411</a>>
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| Become Mozart with NetBeans IDE
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| Alex Lam recently announced NetBeans support for the zany Napkin look-
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| and-feel. It even works on applications built on the NetBeans Platform.
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| For evidence, take a look at Geertjan's Music NotePad, built on the
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| NetBeans Platform and using the JFugue API.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=412">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=412</a>>
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| Elvis, Meet Portability
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| Last month Brian Leonard took a Cay S. Hortsmann article, Elvis Meets
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| GlassFish, and demonstrated how you could use the NetBeans 5.5 Preview
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| to make Elvis even happier. This time around he examines what it takes
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| to make that same application run on JBoss.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=413">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=413</a>>
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| Guess the Glyphs Competition Winners
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| The following five people are the winners for the week of 10.04-16.04:
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| Sanat Gersappa (India), Chart Krobtragolchai (Thailand), Linda Toth
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| (USA), Renat Karimov (Kazakstan), and Andras Barta (Hungary). For more
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| information on the Glyph competition and how to take part visit:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=419">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=419</a>>
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| Subversion support in NetBeans
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| After the successful redesign of CVS, the NetBeans VCS team is aiming
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| for a similar style of IDE integration for Subversion. Check out Roman
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| Strobl's flash demo and feel free to provide feedback to the team
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| before we go out with the 1st Beta in May and the final version later
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| on this year.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=414">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=414</a>>
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| NetBeans Out of the Box Experience vs. Plug-ins and Community Needs
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| Get Roumen's take on balancing the size of NetBeans distribution, the
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| desire to have more plug-ins and improving communication for NetBeans
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| users.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=417">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=417</a>>
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| New Start Page in Trunk Builds
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| Lukas Hasik has provided a screenshot of the new Start Page when you
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| fire up the IDE. It is currently in the trunk builds and will replace
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| the old Welcome Screen. It contains news and blogs that are fed from
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| the web. Check it out and share your opinion.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=418">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=418</a>>
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| Brazilian Portuguese NetBeans IDE Translation
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| There is some great work taking place in localizing the NetBeans IDE
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| 5.0 into Portuguese. This is a large task if you are willing to help
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| out the current members would be more than happy to have your
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| assistance. For more information visit:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=415">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=415</a>>
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| An (Almost) Obsolete NetBeans Feature Wishlist
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| Ramon Ramos has highlighted a year old wishlist posted by Cedric Crowe
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| to JavaLobby. It is great to see how far NetBeans has come in one years
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| time.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=416">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=416</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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