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NetBeans Weekly News (Issue 414 - Oct 26, 2009)

TinuA — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:08:39 +0000

Community NetBeans Governance Has a New Board! Congratulations to Toni Epple and Fabrizio Giudici, the two community-elected members of the 17th NetBeans Governance Board! Jeff Rubinoff is the Sun-appointed third member of the board.

Interview: Sybase Transact-SQL Browser on the NetBeans Platform

geertjan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:58:06 +0000

SQLBrowser is a commercial IDE for Sybase Transact-SQL. For a long time, it was built using JBuilder. "At that time," says its developer Nicolas Gouteux (pictured, right), "the notion of a platform did not exist.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/4

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:45:42 +0000

Adobe is lashing out at Apple on its Flash Player page for the iPhone. When you go to the Flash Player on your iPhone, the text now says "Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player.

System Modeling Environment on the NetBeans Platform

geertjan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:04:31 +0000

Latiz by Latiz Technologies is a systems modeling event driven simulation environment built on the NetBeans Platform. System block models are constructed in Latiz using GUI components to add existing model components to a palette, connect those components through their predefined inputs and outputs, and to set the model parameters for each of the model components.

Office LAF for NetBeans Platform Developers!

geertjan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:50:33 +0000

"OfficeLAF project aims to create a high-fidelity implementation of Office 2007 UI and its Black skin as a NetBeans module," I read today on http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=549, from some time ago.

Top Open Source ESB Projects

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:23:49 +0000

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition. Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. Don Rippert, the chief technology officer at Accenture says, "ESBs are software products that allow you to create a business process with web services running on different platforms." Rippert believes an ESB is essential for...

Screencast: Splitting a One-Module Application into a Modular Application

geertjan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:57:47 +0000

In the beginning of your work on the NetBeans Platform, you'll have one module in your application. That's not a modular application! In the screencast, you learn how & why you can modulerize a single module into multiple loosely coupled modules. List in Express Request?: No ...

Vaadin: Develop Pure Java Web Applications in NetBeans IDE

geertjan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:06:21 +0000

What I've always found to be most interesting about Wicket is that it is great for Java developers: no XML configuration and no JavaScript for AJAX functionality. However, today, during TheServerSide Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic, things went a step further for me: I discovered a Java web framework without any HTML (or markup) whatsoever.The framework is called Vaadin, it is from Finland,...

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:50:52 +0000

More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools. Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun technologies. Glassfish, OpenOffice, NetBeans and VirtualBox were just some of the items mentioned. Here are some specifics on each project:NetBeans

Screencast: Mylyn on the NetBeans Platform?

geertjan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:07:03 +0000

Jaroslav Tulach and I had such a good time recording our MVC/DCI screencast recently that we decided to do another one... on another hot topic. OSGi and the NetBeans Platform! Watch this movie and learn about many things, from OSGi to Mylyn to Darwin and back. You'll also see a very cool demo and hopefully become inspired to contribute to the various projects mentioned in the discussion....

NetBeans 6.8: A Few of Your Favorite Things

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:16:04 +0000

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" didn't make the cut, but what are a few of your favorite things about the upcoming NetBeans 6.8? DZone has rounded up NetBeans developers and users to tell us what they like about the new beta version and how they're using the new features. The comments reveal the diversity of uses and features in the new NetBeans IDE.

Interview: Help for Multilingual NetBeans Platform Applications

geertjan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:29:37 +0000

Peter Rogge (pictured, right) from Germany is yet another developer of NetBeans Platform applications. He's particularly interested in finding generalized solutions for the challenges faced by developers of multilingual applications. Below you find out about him and the projects he's working on around multilingual support for NetBeans Platform applications.

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta Available for Download!

TinuA — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:04:35 +0000

The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta.

VisualVM 1.2 Adds Powerful New Performance and Memory Profiler

jiri.sedlacek — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:47:54 +0000

VisualVM 1.2 has just been released and is available for download at https://visualvm.dev.java.net! After eight months of development, this release introduces many new features and improvements, including a new sampling profiler (read further for details), redesigned charts, unmatched jstatd support and customizable proxy settings. A complete list of changes is available in the Release Notes.

NetBeans Weekly News (Issue 413 - Oct 21, 2009)

TinuA — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:25:39 +0000

Community Last Chance to Vote for NetBeans Governance Board The NetBeans Governance board is a three-member board whose main task it is to make sure that the NetBeans project is being run in a fair and open manner.