Joining the NetBeans Partner Program

Company Name: Visual Paradigm International Ltd.

Product Name: Visual Paradigm for UML Professional Edition

Product Description: Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML) is a powerful, 
cross-platform and yet the most easy-to-use visual UML modeling and CASE 
tool. VP-UML provides software developers the cutting edge development 
platform to build quality applications faster, better and cheaper! It 
facilitates excellent interoperability with other UML CASE tools and 
NetBeans which excels your entire Model-Code-Deploy development process 
in this one-stop-shopping solution.

Company Description: Visual Paradigm is a young and dynamic software 
company based in Hong Kong. The Company consists of a team of software 
engineers with a strong background in Object-Oriented Technology and 
Re-engineering.
Our mission is to develop high quality Object-Oriented visual modeling 
tools and applications to enhance the productivity of the software 
engineer and to provide excellent software development and consultancy 
services in Object-Oriented technology and re-engineering.


What kind of an application did your organization build on top of NetBeans?
Answer: Visual Modeling Tool (UML)
Was NetBeans your only choice or was there any other Java software you 
had to choose from?
Answer: No
Why did you choose NetBeans?
Answer: Popular
What do you hope to get from using NetBeans?
Answer: More developer to model their software using VP-UML
Was/is NetBeans meeting your expectations?
Answer: Yes
Were there any challenges when using the NetBeans core?
Answer: Documentation
What would you recommend to someone who would want to write on top of 
NetBeans?
Answer: Comming from Sun Micro. (Source of the Java)
What should NetBeans do to make it easier for developers to use the code?

Do you ever use NetBeans? And if yes, what type of work you do with the 
IDE?

What do you think are the strongest attributes of NetBeans?
Answer: Easy to learn and use
Where do you think the IDE needs the most improvement?

How did you first hear about NetBeans?
Answer: Search engine
Were there any challenges when developing for NetBeans?

What would you recommend to someone who would want to write a module for 
NetBeans?

How long have you been using NetBeans? Were you using NetBeans before it 
acquired by Sun?

What other open source projects have you been a part of? In what capacity?

Best Regards,
Angus