Monday Jul 06, 2009

NetBeans tutorials

I have no doubt that over the summer break (well not everyone has a summer break from school as I very well know!) many students are experimenting with new technologies that they don't normally have time to play around with while school is in session.  Since most of Sun's technologies are free to download, everyone ought to try their hand at some of the great developer tools such as JavaFX 1.2, NetBeans, and OpenSolaris.

As most of you know, last week the new NetBeans IDE 6.7 was released.  My interest in NetBeans piqued after reading about the new features in 6.7 including support for Zembly and a tight configuration with Project Kenai.  Today I stumbled upon some great NetBeans resources which you can check out here. The landing page has links to dozens of tutorials and screencasts to help you get started with NetBeans.

Do you know of other (FREE!) NetBeans tutorial resources?  If so, please share by posting to the comments below.

Posted on: Jul 06, 2009

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Wednesday Jun 18, 2008

More NetBeans reviews...


Varun Nischal from JIIT University, Noida, India, had a series of NetBeans-related submissons ranging from tips on passing arguments using IDE, specific feature comparisons of NetBeans with .Net, MySQL database management with NetBeans, to the latest status and workaround of  the bug he found. His submissions are nicely indexed here. Varun submitted a review of OpenSolaris as well.
 Varun Nischal
Varun Nischal
Saptarshi Purkayastha
Saptarshi Purkayastha
Saptarshi Purkayastha from Patkar-Varde College, India, had a feature by feature comparison between NetBeans 6.1 and Visual Studio 2008. While he liked the performance improvement in NetBeans 6.1 (and noticed slowing down of Visual Studio over the years), Saptarshi highlighted the scope of improvement for NetBeans in the Subversion area in his second submission for the contest.

Posted on: Jun 18, 2008

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Category: NetBeans

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Tuesday Jun 17, 2008

NetBeans reviews... continued!


Rajath Shanbag from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, had couple of interesting NetBeans submissions, including one on GUI internationalization in NetBeans and another one on checking out projects from Java.net through NetBeans. He had a NetBeans profiler tutorial along with another post on new launguage support in NetBeans 6.1, but the latter two posts are not being considered for this contest as they were submitted in an earlier NetBeans contest.
 Rajath Shanbag
Rajath Shanbag
Rajiv Perera
Rajiv Perera
 Rajiv Perera is based in Sri Lanka and he is studying at Australian College of Business and Technology. He is using NetBeans in his day to day academic projects, and he likes the fact that with NetBeans 6.1, "hectic manually configuring xml files era is over." The two NetBeans features he found the most useful are refactoring and find usage. Check out Rajiv's NetBeans 6.1 review here.
Mohamed Sanaulla, another student from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, described his experiences as a first time NetBeans IDE user (coming from Eclipse background). He found NetBeans 6.1 installation a breeze and it was must faster than Eclipse. Even as a first time user, he was able to develop a simple Java desktop application in less than five minutes, thanks to all the embedded functionalities in NetBeans. Check out his review here. Mohamed Sanaulla
Mohamed Sanaulla

Posted on: Jun 17, 2008

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Monday Jun 16, 2008

More NetBeans contest submissions...


Kunal Modi from Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, Mumbai, India, focused on the NetBeans 6.1 editor enhancements. He went over various aspects of these enhancements, and then presented a complete tutorial on how to add custom actions to the NetBeans Java Editor. Kunal made this a plug-in for NetBeans IDE. Check out his submission here.
 Kunal Modi
Kunal Modi
Ransara Wijethunga
Ransara Wijethunga
 Ransara Wijethunga from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, started researching for a good IDE that he can use for his mobile application development using J2ME. His research has led him to choose NetBeans 6.1, and along the way he has learned that NetBeans supports a lot of languages other than Java for development. In his submission, Ransara goes over the new and noteworthy features of NetBeans 6.1.
Samir Kumar Mishra,  Sun Campus  Ambassador  at  University College of  Engineering, Burla, India, creates a GUI-based parser using the StringTokenizer class of the java.util package, and makes it a plug-in for NetBeans 6.1. Check out his tutorial here.
 University College of Engineering, Burla, India
Samir Kumar Mishra
Zach Elko
Zach Elko
 Zach Elko from Ball State University, USA, wrote his top 10 list of great features from the new NetBeans 6.1 IDE. The list include code bookmarks, build platform, code completion, code formatting, single file compile, diff, favorites, symbol tracking, include directories and local history. He goes over these features with examples here.

Posted on: Jun 16, 2008

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Category: NetBeans

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Sunday Jun 15, 2008

Another 4 NetBeans reviews from the contest


Agraj Mangal, Sun Campus Ambassador at University of Delhi, India, had a submission of how to send email using Java. He used NetBeans 6.1 to write a simple Java program that sends an email using the owner's email account details. This functionality can also be embedded in a web application. Agraj had put together a nice tutorial with code snippets and lots of helpful NetBeans 6.1 screenshots as he was developing the application.
 Agraj Mangal
Agraj Mangal

Wasif Tanveer
Wasif Tanveer
Wasif Tanveer from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, detailed the specific NetBeans 6.1 functionalities that he liked most, especially from a mobile application developer perspective. The default heap size wasn't sufficient for a huge data file that he was reading in his application, but he resolved this issue by using dynamic heap size argument -Xmx512M. Check out Wasif's review here.

Chris Leong from University of Sydney, Australia, observed that various great features of NetBeans (deservingly) gets a lot of attention but there are simple things that considerably increases user's productivity. Chris focused on the NetBeans Editor itself as he felt that there are features in the editor that not only increase productivity individually but also make a huge difference collectively. Chris is a Sun Campus Ambassador, and his review in a nice story telling format is here.
 Chris Leong
Chris Leong

Alper Celik
Alper Celik
Alper Celik, Sun Campus Ambassador at The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, noted the performance improvement in NetBeans 6.1 as well as some of its key features. Being a good ambassador, he didn't forget to prominently include the "call to action" of downloading NetBeans 6.1 and trying it out to his fellow student developers. :-)

Posted on: Jun 15, 2008

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Wednesday Jun 11, 2008

"NB 6.1: A powerhouse"


Sushant Kumar, who is a Sun Campus Ambassador at SMVD University, India, considers NetBeans 6.1 a "powerhouse." In one of his reviews, Sushant goes over the strengths of the IDE as well as the shortcomings he found. He had an interesting comment - NetBeans has so much extra help for the users that professors sometime find it too much "freedom" for the students. :-)

Sushant submitted an OpenSolaris review as well (ignore the NetBeans 6.0 at the beginning as NetBeans 6.0 wasn't part of this contest).
 Sushant Kumar
Sushant Kumar

Sanjib Narzary from National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, had a quick note on using OpenSolaris LiveCD to try the best Unix flavor.
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Sanjib Narzary

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Vivek Kanaujia
Vivek Kumar Kanaujia from Mahan Institute of Technology, India, had a submission on creating an application with NetBeans.


Posted on: Jun 11, 2008

Posted by: chhandomay

Category: NetBeans

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