Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

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

Reusing NetBeans Plug-ins in Standalone Apps and in the IDE

I just spent some time on the phone with Jaspersoft. They have an interesting use case for NetBeans: They are both providing a NetBeans plug-in and a...

1 replies - 2601 views - 01/29/08 by Tim Boudreau in News

Switching to Mercurial

When I first heard that NetBeans and OpenJDK were going to switch to a version control system I'd never heard of called Mercurial (aka Hg) I had some...

11 replies - 11141 views - 01/29/08 by Tim Boudreau in Articles

What's the Status of NetBeans IDE's Groovy Editor?

Geertjan Wielenga is a Sun employee, part of NetBeans IDE community and NetBeans IDE Zone Leader here on DZone. He worked on the Groovy plugin for NetBeans...

1 replies - 4166 views - 01/29/08 by Steven Devijver in News

How to Create Visual Applications in Java?

My excellent colleague Sun evangelist Chuk Munn Lee wrote me an e-mail in response to my description yesterday of how to create JConsole plugins: "I did...

7 replies - 27480 views - 01/29/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

How to Get Started with JConsole Plugins

While reading Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional, I discovered for the first time that the JConsole is pluggable, since Java SE 6....

0 replies - 7921 views - 01/28/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Wizard Driven Web Framework Plugin Development

Despite all the discussions that have been held about the many web frameworks that have enriched the world, about their contrasts and similarities, there are...

1 replies - 2222 views - 01/24/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Ode to Build Scripts

I was reading the Code to Joy blog today because of an interesting blog entry about Groovy and JFugue, who are two of my friends in the programming world....

0 replies - 1561 views - 01/23/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

FreeMarker in NetBeans IDE 6.0: First Scenario

NetBeans IDE 6.0 provides support for FreeMarker, on many levels, covering a variety of scenarios. To not confuse things, I'll deal with each scenario in a...

0 replies - 7830 views - 01/21/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

What Java IDE VM arguments do YOU use?

Java based IDEs are really impressive these days, but developers may quickly find themselves running up against a wall (or worse, constant crashes!) with...

11 replies - 22495 views - 01/21/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News

10 Handy Editor Shortcuts in NetBeans IDE 6.0

The following are some of the many cool NetBeans IDE 6.0 keyboard shortcuts that no programmer will be able to do without, once you know they're there. Not...

3 replies - 2452 views - 01/16/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

NetBeans Platform: 1 Java Desktop Infrastructure... 4 Different Use Cases

I've been thinking about the NetBeans Platform (a lot) and come to realize that it caters to four distinct use cases. (And possibly I'm wrong and there are...

0 replies - 1982 views - 01/16/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform

Chapter 1 (Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform) introduces the NetBeans IDE, which will be the basis for developing rich client modules in NetBeans, but will also be the platform used to...

1 replies - 3213 views - 09/10/07 by Matthew Schmidt in Book Reviews