ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Q&A on SAVARA

We spoke with Gary Brown and Steve Ross-Talbot to get their ideas about architectural agility and how savara fits in.

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

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...

0 replies - 947 views - 10/29/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in Videos

Vaadin: Develop Pure Java Web Applications in NetBeans IDE

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...

6 replies - 2274 views - 10/28/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

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...

10 replies - 10338 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Screencast: Mylyn on the NetBeans Platform?

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...

9 replies - 2788 views - 10/26/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

NetBeans 6.8: A Few of Your Favorite Things

"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...

4 replies - 13345 views - 10/26/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Interview: Help for Multilingual NetBeans Platform Applications

Peter Rogge (pictured, right) from Germany is yet another developer of NetBeans Platform applications. He's particularly interested in finding generalized...

0 replies - 1673 views - 10/25/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta Available for Download!

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

0 replies - 5149 views - 10/23/09 by Tinu A in News

VisualVM 1.2 Adds Powerful New Performance and Memory Profiler

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...

11 replies - 6338 views - 10/21/09 by Jiri Sedlacek in Articles

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

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...

0 replies - 572 views - 10/21/09 by Tinu A in News

NetBeans Platform Idioms: Pluggable TopComponent (Part 2)

Continuing from my previous post, this time we're going to see three simple classes that I'll need in my next post. They can be used to instantiate a set of...

0 replies - 865 views - 10/20/09 by Fabrizio Giudici in Articles

NB PoWeR: a repository of ready-to-use NetBeans Platform Wrapper libraries

This is a very short post and it's mainly aimed in getting feedbacks from the NetBeans Platform Community. As part of a bigger move in refactoring my projects...

3 replies - 959 views - 10/19/09 by Fabrizio Giudici in News

Why I Think That IDEA Going Open Source is Not a Good Sign

It looks like I shocked quite a few people with my recent prediction of doom for IDEA, so I thought I'd take some time to elaborate.Here is what I said:

20 replies - 6577 views - 10/19/09 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Log Management Technology on the NetBeans Platform

Raffael Maio, a telecom engineer, is the co-founder of NetGuardians in Switzerland. Before starting NetGuardians, he worked as a developer for a start-up in...

0 replies - 1310 views - 10/17/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

How to Create a Cross-Platform Application with NASA WorldWind & NetBeans Platform

This post is a mini tutorial on how to create an application based on NetBeans Platform that uses the WorldWind Java virtual globe. Before to continue, you...

1 replies - 2094 views - 10/15/09 by Antonio Santiago in Tips and Tricks

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 7402 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News