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Linux Magazine Review of NetBeans 4.1
In this thorough review of the latest version of NetBeans, Jacques Surveyer assesses how NetBeans is holding its own against Eclipse and praises the visual design capabilities of the new release, stating that its GUI designer "gives it an edge" over Eclipse. Surveyer highlights the strengths of NetBeans for J2EE by chronicling his experience creating a JSP project. Read more
NetBeans IDE 5.0 Beta Now Available
Download NetBeans IDE 5.0 Beta, the release that introduces comprehensive support for developing IDE modules and rich client applications based on the NetBeans Platform, the new intuitive GUI builder Matisse, new and redesigned CVS support, Weblogic9 and JBoss 4 support, and a lot of editor enhancements. Read more
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Making the Most of NetBeans IDE
13 Oct
Interested in using the NetBeans IDE to develop applications for the JBoss application server? This article will show you how - it is intended as a comparison to this online JBoss document Getting Started with JBoss 4.0. Using an existing JBoss application it shows how to create a project and then use the IDE to browse, build, deploy, and debug.
03 Oct Gregg Sporar and Ruth Kusterer
The NetBeans Profiler is a powerful tool that provides important information about the runtime behavior of your application. This tutorial will show you how to use the NetBeans Profiler to monitor the creation of objects by an application (memory leak detection), to determine the CPU time used by an application's methods (speed optimization), and to monitor the runtime behavior of an application (heap memory size, garbage collection statistics, thread count, thread state).
03 Oct Sandip Chitale
This article shows how to add custom tools as toolbar to the NetBeans Platform. You will learn how to combine the Color Sampler and the Magnifier tools to build a custom color chooser panel. Based on this, we will create a custom toolbar making the handy Color Chooser functionality available from the NetBeans Platform.The toolbar can be used in NetBeans IDE, Sun Java Studio Enterprise, Sun Java Studio Creator, and any J2EE standards-based tool.
