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Making the most of NetBeans IDE
This guide is designed to help you transition your applications and IDE settings from NetBeans IDE 3.6 to NetBeans IDE 4.0, and to show you how to be even more productive with the new NetBeans IDE projects system.
A short guide to creating a Swing application using the visual designer in NetBeans IDE 4.0. Includes information on selecting a layout manager, adding GUI components, editing your layout with the GridBag Customizer, creating connections between components, and working with event handler code.
Updated! Shows you how to further configure a freeform project to fully integrate your IDE with your company's build process. Includes information on hooking up Ant targets to IDE commands and writing targets to debug your application.

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