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20070813 Monday August 13, 2007

Get Started with NetBeans Platform 6.0

In Tim's Selection Tutorials Ported to 6.0, I announced that the 4-part selection series, by Tim Boudreau, is available for 6.0. However, before you follow those tutorials, you probably need to take some orientating steps through the NetBeans Platform tools and some of the main APIs. Now, the main NetBeans Platform tutorials are also available for 6.0:

The samples on which the above tutorials are based were written by some of the undisputed heros of the NetBeans Platform—Jaroslav Tulach wrote the HTML Editor, Tim Boudreau the Paint Application, and Rich Unger the Feed Reader. So, you are in good hands! Now these samples can also be built in 6.0, if you use the tutorials above. Best to follow them in the above sequence, because they increase in complexity. The differences between 5.5 and 6.0, in relation to these tutorials, is minor. However, the screenshots have been fixed (many places where there are small u.i. tweaks in 6.0) and, especially in the case of the Feed Reader tutorial, a lot of explanatory text has been added and some restructuring has been done.

All three of the above are in some kind of 'draft' state, although they should definitely provide the promised result (i.e., the code should be solid). The titles might change by the time 6.0 is released, but the URL to the tutorials should remain the same. Further explanatory texts need to be added, especially in the Feed Reader tutorial. Any comments are welcome, use the Feedback links at the end of each of the tutorials.

Aug 13 2007, 11:47:14 PM PDT Permalink