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Arun Gupta02/15/08
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Configurable Multiple Ruby Platforms in NetBeans 6.1 M1

NetBeans 6.1 M1 is now available. Download here!

Geertjan Wielenga02/14/08
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Interview: Author of New Book on SOA-Based Composite Application Development

A brand new book on SOA has just come out, entitled Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6. Here its author, Frank Jennings, is interviewed. He tells us about the suprising wealth of SOA features he found in NetBeans IDE and shares...

Geertjan Wielenga02/14/08
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Tools for Adding Color to Java Web Applications

When adding color to web pages, don't you find that you simply don't know all the colors of the rainbow nor what they're called in the computer world?

Steven Devijver02/14/08
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Martin Adamek: Building Groovy & Grails Support for NetBeans IDE

Martin Adamek is a Sun employee and works on the Groovy plugin for NetBeans IDE. In this interview he talks about the current status of the plugin, how he piggybacks on the JRuby plugin and how the community could help out. Enjoy.

Arun Gupta02/13/08
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RESTful representation of "sakila" using GlassFish and NetBeans IDE

"sakila" is the sample database shipped with MySQL (pronounced as my ess-kew-ell). In the context of Sun Microsystems announcing the agreement to acquire MySQL, I'd like to dedicate this entry to show how this sample database can be exposed as a...

Geertjan Wielenga02/11/08
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Beans Binding for Dummies

If you want to really understand "beans binding", i.e., JSR-295, you can study lots of documents. Alternatively, you can go through a small but very powerful demo, here. At the end, you have a bean, which has properties that you bind to Swing...

Geertjan Wielenga02/09/08
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Simple MySQL Integration into NetBeans IDE 6.0

To celebrate Sun's MySQL acquisition, here's some further NetBeans/MySQL integration (on top of that provided by 6.0, by default, by means of which you can register a MySQL connection, start/stop and even create MySQL databases). It is a work in progress but...

Arun Gupta02/09/08
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acts_as_conference 2008 - Day 1 Report

acts_as_conference started earlier today (now yesterday) in Orlando, Florida with Charity Session. Completely sold out with 165 attendees!

Arun Gupta02/07/08
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Rails and PostgreSQL with NetBeans IDE

This article describes how you can create a Rails application accessing PostgreSQL database using NetBeans 6.

Bruno Souza02/07/08
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Announcing the NetBeans Innovators Grant

Have you ever wanted to earn some money to work on a cool open source project? Or would you like someone to sponsor your project? This is your chance. NetBeans announces the "Dreams of Reality - NetBeans Innovator's Grant", a contest to give grant...

Geertjan Wielenga02/06/08
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How to Create a Flickr Search in Java Swing

The tooling support that NetBeans IDE 6.0 has for JSR-296 is really awesome. There's so much of it. To get myself up to speed, I went through this demo, which gets you a nice application for searching Flickr.

Gregg Sporar02/05/08
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Hidden Hippie

With more and more folks trying out the NetBeans IDE I continue to see hippie completion discussed out on the nbusers email list. So, it is worth discussing here because this feature is one of those that almost seems hidden - even though it is listed on the...

Geertjan Wielenga02/05/08
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How to Add Resize Functionality to Visual Applications in Java?

In How to Create Visual Applications in Java?, I introduced you to the NetBeans Visual Library, specifically in the context of standard Java SE applications. Here we continue where we left off, but we add resize functionality... in very few lines of code!

Geertjan Wielenga02/02/08
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Pagosoft's Look and Feel for Java Swing

I'm not a very big fan of "look and feels". My perspective on them is the same as for butter: "Hey, it's butter, great, but what's the point of all those different brands, don't they all taste basically the same? And isn't any difference they...

Geertjan Wielenga02/01/08
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