NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #541 - Jun 11, 2012)

Community

In the Java IDE market, the latest ZeroTurnaround Developer Productivy Report shows NetBeans usage jumped 80% since 2011!

NetBeans Dream Team members Bruno Souza and Adam Bien have been shortlisted as top Java ambassadors for 2012! Take a few minutes, look through the candidates, and case your vote today.

Toni Epple, from the NetBeans Dream Team, has created a new NetBeans IDE plugin for converting from SVG to JavaFX FXML. He's included a YouTube movie and a full code listing in his report.

Tutorials

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform basic patch-specific tasks in the IDE by guiding you through the standard workflow when using Mercurial versioning software for managing patches.

Learn about a new API for extending project searches in NetBeans by extending the dialog for doing so.

Create and debug a TestNG test class in NetBeans IDE. In the screencast you create a simple TestNG test and create a data provider in the test class to supply the parameters used in the test.

Articles

Prime Teknoloji is glad to announce the 3.3 release of PrimeFaces. There are 10 issue fixes over the 3.3.RC1 release.

The Javeleon team is happy to announce the new highly improved Javeleon 2.0 class reloading tool that will boost your productivity significantly by eliminating the need to restart applications while under development.

Blogs

A handy hint about the NetBeans GUI Builder by Hermien Pellissier from South Africa.

Using the Wizard APIs and confused about how to integrate a progress bar for longrunning tasks? Read on to find out how!