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Community Docs Contributor Spotlight: Sapan Parikh

Hi all,

The NetBeans Community Docs effort is up and running! Several community members have already contributed, and now other members of the NetBeans Community can benefit from their work. Today, I'd like to focus on one contributor: Sapan Parikh. Sapan, a recent Computer Science graduate from Harrison, New Jersey, has been using NetBeans for more than three years. I'll let him describe it in his own words:

"I started using NetBeans at least 3 years back but I was never into desktop programming, so my initial usage of NetBeans was limited to school projects. Over the years my experience and desire to work with web technology increased, I started using JSC heavily but there was still a problem with it, creating own J2Me modules were hard. After VWP is launched it is like heaven, one gets a single platform to create J2EE, J2ME and J2SE projects. And not only that, by creating different packs (Like VWP, Mobile Pack etc.) NetBeans has successfully separated different genera of Java programming so using it doesn't become complex. It is very amazing that NetBeans is evolving very fast and I think soon it will be better than any commercial product that we see in market nowadays."

Sapan is the author of the Component Creation at Runtime Tutorial. The tutorial instructs users how to create ceertain components like command buttons and input text at run time. Often programmers come across a situation where they have to create components on the fly (at run time). Components can be anything, from layout panels to command buttons to input components. One way to do this is to use the JSF table component which is simple to implement, but enforces adherence to the table component by taking away the freedom to come up with one's own layouts.

There's also something else you should check out. Sapan is a photographer. His blog features a lot of his photography. I bet you'll enjoy the photos as much as I did.

Hats off to Sapan for making the NetBeans Community a better place!

You can contribute too. Just go to the NetBeans Community Docs Wiki Page and follow the instructions. And who knows, soon I may be telling the world about you.

See you soon.

James

Posted at 10:47AM Mar 13, 2007 by branajam in Sun  |