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Wednesday November 29, 2006 |
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Milestone 5 skipped
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Lot of changes in NetBeans source base. The new java infrastructure was integrated into NetBeans. The plus is that the editor is nicer, now we have 15 code completions etc. The minus is that Mobility Pack, all other modules that depended on the old MDR have to be rewritten to the new java infrastructure - Retouche. It will take some time... More then everybody expected. Hopefully at the end we will have Mobility Pack working again. The Mobility daily builds are without the main features now. Someday the builds didn't run at all.
That's are the reason why we don't publish Mobility Pack Milestone 5.
UPDATE: I forgot to notice - There is NetBeans Milestone 5 available. Do you wanna taste new editor features? Go and try it!
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( Nov 29 2006, 11:20:37 PM CET )
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Thursday November 23, 2006 |
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WTK on linux again...
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That's the good news that you were waiting for. There will be WTK 2.5 for Linux.
To be strict: There will be Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC for Fedora Core.
How many of j2me developers is out there? Or did they convinced you to switch to windows?
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( Nov 23 2006, 07:36:20 PM CET )
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Wednesday November 15, 2006 |
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Prague and Java Me Day
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Java ME day was first time in Prague. There were other events in the same time just in next doors - OpenSolaris Day, NetBeans Day. Lot of people chose the Java ME. The event went great. Good presenters, interesting topic, giveaways 
Adam and Michal created mobile client to web application on the stage. That's pretty impressive. I liked the Petr Suchomel's presentation about SVG. It showed again that he is great presenter. You would believe how he survived problems with a keyboard. He couldn't find hash "#"(it happend when you present on computer from somebody else ). He solved it with creating of preprocessor block and copy+paste. Preprocessor block can be created from contextual menu in editor. The block starts with slash slash hash.
Adam presents the main featurs of Mobility Pack 5.5
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Michal demoing. Why is Petr on knees?
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Part of WTK team with giveaways (and Sun girls)
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First day of Sun Tech Days. The audience.
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( Nov 15 2006, 10:35:11 PM CET )
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Friday November 10, 2006 |
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Java ME Day v Praze na Sun Tech Days 2006
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In Czech
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this post in English
Pristi tyden budou v Praze Sun Tech Days. Velka konference, spousta prezentaci. Registrace pro Tech Days byla zdarma do konce rijna. Dnes uz stoji 500,- korun (studenti stale zdarma).
Pokud nechcete platit a touzite videt co noveho Vam SUN predvede v Java ME, tak se muzete zucastnit Java ME dne, ktery bude 14. listopadu.
Pokud mate strach, ze nebudete rozumnet prezentacim v anglictine, tak je tu dobra zprava. Prezentace o Mobility Packu bude v cestine! Uz ted se moc tesim ja tu krasnou technickou cestinu. Doufam, ze par prezentaci stihnu navstivit, kdyz uz jsem se zaregistroval...
Program pro Java ME Day
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1:00 - 1:10pm
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Java ME Welcome
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1:10 - 2:00pm
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Introduction to Java ME
Putting the Power of the Java Brand to Work
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2:10 - 3:00pm
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Graphics and Media in Java ME
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3:00 - 3:20pm
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Pauza
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3:20 - 4:10pm
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Mobility on NetBeans
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4:20 - 5:10pm
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Java ME Testing - Having the Right Tools for the Job
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5:20 - 6:10pm
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Community Open Session
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Co uvidite na prednasce Mobility on NetBeans? Adam Sotona vam predvede novou verzi Mobility Packu 5.5. Ukaze urcite SVG support, ladeni programu primo na telefonu. Mozna predvede i pristi verzi Mobility Packu pro CDC, ktera bude hotova v prosinci. Takze je na co se tesit.
Spolecne s Java ME Day pobezi i OpenSolaris Day a NetBeans Day, takze informace dostanete na vsech frontach (OS, Tools, Mobile).
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( Nov 10 2006, 04:59:33 PM CET )
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Java ME Day in Prague Sun Tech Days 2006
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this post in Czech
There are Sun Tech Days in Prague next week. Big conference, lot of presentations. The registration for the Tech Days was free till end of October. It will cost you 500,- crowns now (students have free entrance).
If would like to spend the money for something different but you'd like to hear/see what new Sun prepared in Java ME then attend Java ME Day. The Java Me Day is on 14th of November.
Some of the presentation will be in Czech what is good news for Czech attendees. It is bad news for the speakers - I don't know some words in Czech at all (or they sound strange to me)
Agenda of the Java ME Day
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1:00 - 1:10pm
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Java ME Welcome
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1:10 - 2:00pm
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Introduction to Java ME
Putting the Power of the Java Brand to Work
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2:10 - 3:00pm
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Graphics and Media in Java ME
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3:00 - 3:20pm
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Break
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3:20 - 4:10pm
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Mobility on NetBeans
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4:20 - 5:10pm
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Java ME Testing - Having the Right Tools for the Job
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5:20 - 6:10pm
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Community Open Session
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What you'll see at the Mobility on NetBeans presentation? Adam Sotona will show you Mobility Pack 5.5 release. You can expect the SVG support, on device debugging. If everything will go smoothly, you'll see new Mobility Pack 5.5 for CDC.
There is Open Solaris Day and NetBeans Day at the same time as the Java ME Day.
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( Nov 10 2006, 04:59:17 PM CET )
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Tuesday November 07, 2006 |
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Eclipse birthday and Red October
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Monday November 06, 2006 |
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What's new in Mobility Pack 5.5
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I'll try to summarize the new features in Mobility Pack 5.5 release. I've already blogged about them but it could be useful to list all the features at one place.
New Features
There are two new features in the 5.5 release of the Mobility Pack. Support for JUnit testing on mobile devices and support for developing applications using JSR226 - Scalable 2D Vector Graphics (SVG).
Support for SVG
New custom components for easy use of SVG are in Visual Mobile Designer palette. You can preview a SVG file directly in IDE. It's possible to browse the SVG components tree. You cannot edit the SVF file directly in Mobility Pack. OTOH, you can start an external SVG editor from IDE. When your device doesn't support JSR 226 then you can generate PNGs from SVG image or sequence of PNGs from SVG animation.
Support for JUnit Testing
Generate tests with wizard in the same way how are you used to in Java SE. The generated test classes use JMUnit framework.
There is another framework that you can use to test on mobile devices - J2MEUnit. The library for J2MEUnit is included in NetBeans Mobility Pack.
It seems that these frameworks should be merged into one in next release.
Other News and Noteworthy
There is lot of small improvements and changes that deserve to be noticed. There is finally D'n'D support for images in Visual Designer. Just drag and drop an image to a Form opened in Screen Designer then new Image and ImageItem will be created automatically. The visual midlets version increased therefore you cannot open 5.5 visual midlets in older Mobility Pack versions. There were fixed some bugs with custom TableItem component. It didn't displayed itself correctly on some devices. The issue was solved by new class that manages colors of the table on device - ColorSchema.
Looot of issues.
There are bad news too. JAX-WS webservice clients are not visible in Mobile Client to Web Application Wizard. You can use only Java EE 4 webservice clients.
There is SVG support but you have to download emulator with SVG by yourself(E.g. Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5 Beta). You can use Java ME Platform SDK Catalog Update Center to do it from IDE.
How this Release Became My Nightmare
Well, the Mobility Pack 5.5 release started as only bug fixing release. Only some well defined bug fixes for the critical bugs should be included in the release. How the time went and the release cycle was longer and longer because of the new Java EE features more and more bugs looked like that they deserved to be fixed. There was even a feature added after Beta2 when the code base should be stable enough. From my point of view (quality assurance engineer) this release became a nightmare. I'm responsible for quality and when we achieve a state when the release was stable then new feature was added. The work started again from the start.... Does it look like waste of time? ARGGH. I'm really glad that the release is finally out and we can focus on the CDC Pack for 5.5 and 6.0 release.
Download
NetBeans IDE together with all the packs, Mobility Pack of course too, is on the netbeans.org site.
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( Nov 06 2006, 03:47:45 PM CET )
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Saturday November 04, 2006 |
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Five and half Bernards for Mobility Pack at NetBeans Release Party
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There was release party to celebrate the NetBeans 5.5 (and Mobility Pack as well) on Thursday. All the developers, quality engineers, doc writers, evangelists, design gurus, etc. gathered in cellarages of club called Blues Rock Club. They partied all the night. Listen to band Votchi, danced and discussed about everything.
Bernard beer was free. Food too. Why I stuffed myself with the first course when the ribs and chicken wings flew in later?
I regret that I had to leave early. I had really serious reason I didn't finish my five and half Bernard beers to celebrate the Mobility Pack release. The codename for the 5.5 was Bernard. It can seems like coincidence but IMHO it was planned. A party without beer is like NetBeans without Mobility Pack.
We received new 5.5 t-shirt. It has long sleeves. .JARa knows why...
Would you want one? Watch the netbeans.org - you'll have an opportunity to win some.
Front of 5.5 t-shirt
Back of 5.5 t-shirt
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( Nov 04 2006, 02:56:24 PM CET )
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