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A new release of Sun Java Studio Creator is now available, and we've updated all the tutorials for this release except for Delving Into Components, and that will be available next week. As with writing tutorials in the past, we worked closely with engineering to ensure that the updated tutorials show best practices for using Creator. You can easily identify an updated tutorial because it includes the big red Java Studio Creator 2 icon shown here on the top right side of each tutorial.

Among the highlights:

Adding Style to Components, a new tutorial, describes how to add styles to both a single component and several instances of the component. The tutorial also describes how to create a new style class and how to create and apply a new style sheet to your project.
Referencing Class Libraries, another new tutorial, shows how to add a library reference and use it in your project.
Using Tree Components has two new sections: how to add tree nodes that link to web pages and how to dynamically add new tree nodes.
Accessing Web Services has been completely redesigned and goes into more detail on how to work with web services.
Using Virtual Forms describes the new feature of how virtual forms retain and discard submitted values.

Greg Zieblod, a Sun engineer who works on portlet tools, expands on the GoogleSearch Portlet tutorial in his blog. He writes about how to use the search feature of the Google APIs (doSearch). For those interested, you can view Greg's blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gregz?entry=googlesearch_portlet.

Today's release of Creator also makes all the online help topics included in the product available on the website. This should help make your search for information seamless, whether you are looking for a quick answer to question in a help topic or a more detailed example in a tutorial. The help is at http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/docs/help/

We have numerous more tutorials that we are working on so check back either here or on the tutorials index page to see what's new. As always, if you have a request for a tutorial, please send us feedback at CreatorDocsfeedback@sun.com.