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Hi all,

Here is this months Edge edition. Jack will be exporting this edition of 
the Edge to all translators later this afternoon.
Due to the time constraints of the nbelections & NetBeans Day I would 
like to send to nbannounce by the end of business
day on Tuesday June 15.

If you have any comments/ something to add/ or find any errors please 
let me know so I can fix the mistake.

Also take note in the editorial section:
And now there is another way to get involved. Have you ever dreamed of 
being a writer and having your work published? Well now is your chance. 
Write a how-to, design a tutorial, perform an interview, create a flash 
presentation and tell us how you use NetBeans or why you love it. It is 
your story so tell the world what you think they should know about 
NetBeans! If your story is published in the Edge we will send you a 
NetBeans T-shirt. Send your story at any time to 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

I am hoping to drive more new content and would like your help. If any 
articles are submitted to [email protected] we
can choose which one(s) would go into the newsletter together. I am also 
open to your suggestions on how we can make this
program work better and draw some attention for community members.

Thanks in advance,

- Rob -

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Date: 	Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:55:35 +0200
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Issue 22

	  	  	
	NetBeans Edge, Issue 23
 

With the advent of summer in the Northern Hemisphere things are 
beginning to heat up.

Preparation for NetBeans Day and JavaOne are well underway and we hope 
to see as many of you there as possible. For everything NetBeans there 
is no other place to be.

You may know already but for those of you who don't NetBeans.org website 
traffic, mailing list subscribers and downloads are higher now than ever 
before. A better IDE, greater community involvement and tremendous 
industry support are a few of the driving forces. It is your 
participation that is helping to drive the NetBeans project direction 
not to mention the organization of our first ever NetBeans Day!

And now there is another way to get involved. Have you ever dreamed of 
being a writer and having your work published? Well now is your chance. 
Write a how-to, design a tutorial, perform an interview, create a flash 
presentation and tell us how you use NetBeans or why you love it. It is 
your story so tell the world what you think they should know about 
NetBeans! If your story is published in the Edge we will send you a 
NetBeans T-shirt. Send your story at any time to 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

With our foot on the pedal we are speeding forward together. You will be 
seeing a new website design in late June and a NetBeans 4.0 beta in 
early July. Put your seat belt on because NetBeans is taking off!

See you next month when you stay one step ahead with the NetBeans Edge!

	
 
	  	 Robert Demmer 	
		

	  	  	
	NetBeans Software Day
 

NetBeans Day is drawing ever closer.

Get the hottest ticket in San Francisco June 29th for free.

Learn more about:

    * The latest advances in NetBeans Technology
    * Developing NetBeans Plug-ins for the IDE & Platform
    * J2EE Development With NetBeans
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    * NetBeans Partners
    * And much more...

Seats are limited so if you are not registered please do so today.

Still available for NetBeans community members is a $200 discount on a 
full JavaOne pass.

	
 
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	NetBeans Software Media Kit on CD
 
The wildly popular NetBeans IDE 3.6 is now available for your 
convenience on CD.

Get the latest NetBeans IDE 3.6 Multilingual (English, Japanese and 
Simplified Chinese) software media kit for only a minimal cost.

Everything you need to begin developing Java applications is included: 
NetBeans IDE 3.6, the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 1.4.2 and 
mobility plug-in pack for NetBeans, tutorials and much more.

Supports Windows, Solaris and Linux environments.

	
 
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	NetBeans Governance Board Voting
 
The NetBeans Board elections are drawing to a conclusion. You have still 
have time to cast you vote if you have not yet done so. The voting 
period will continue through June 16 midnight in the last time zone. The 
new NetBeans Governance Board will be announced on June 17.

Your final candidates are:

    * Vincent Brabant
    * Meg Garrison
    * Glenn Holmer
    * David Strupl
    * Lluis Turro
    * Rich Unger

Best wishes to all of our fine candidates!

	
 
	[view candidate profiles and vote 
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	Module Catalogue
 
RefactorIT 2.0.2 Community Edition

Now available through the NetBeans IDE 3.6 3rd party update center is 
the freeware version of the popular RefactorIT software. It supports 
projects of limited size (50 source files), and does not include command 
line and Ant support, but it is otherwise fully functional. It does not 
have a time limit. More information can be found at refactorit.com 
<http://www.refactorit.com>.

JRefactory - Refactoring <http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/12-all.html>

JRefactory enables formatting of code via a pretty printer with many 
coding styles and options, default JavaDoc comments and tags are 
optionally generated. Find bugs 0.7.2 is included, as is a Cut and Paste 
detector and version of PMD that is integrated with Refactoring support. 
A UML class diagram viewer is included which also allows refactoring 
actions to be started. There are 16 powerful refactorings implemented.

App Perfect Code Analyzer - Java Tools 
<http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/28-all.html>

AppPerfect Code Analyzer is designed to perform two key software 
development functions: Review Java code and enforce good coding 
practices. AppPerfect Code Analyzer performs static analysis of your 
Java and Java Server Pages (JSP) source code.

AppPerfect Unit Tester - Test Tools 
<http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/40-all.html>

AppPerfect Unit Tester is a unit test management system. It automates 
the generation and execution of your unit tests. Unit testing form the 
basis of software testing at the developer level. Unit testing generally 
refers to testing software based on the smallest logical unit of that 
software. In Java, this typically is a class file.

AppPerfect JVM Profiler - Profiling 
<http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/31-all.html>

AppPerfect J2EE/JVM Profiler helps you diagnose and resolve performance 
problems, memory leaks, multi-threading problems and system resource 
usage problems in your Java applications to ensure the highest level of 
stability and scalability for your applications. AppPerfect J2EE/JVM 
Profiler provides you with a root-cause analysis of these problems and 
helps you resolve them.

Struts Console - Web <http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/27-all.html>

The updated Struts Console 4.6 is a FREE standalone Java Swing 
application for developing and managing Struts-based applications. With 
the Struts Console you can visually edit JSP Tag Library, Struts, Tiles 
and Validator configuration files.

	
 
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	Press & Articles
 
Updated Web Apps FAQ <http://www.netbeans.org/kb/faqs/web_apps.html> - 
If you are developing Web Apps and have questions this page is a good 
place to start.

Corrected Web Module Quick Start URL 
<http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/web-apps-quickstart-36.html> - In 
the last edition of the NetBeans Edge we provided an incorrect URL to 
this document. In this Edge we fix our mistake.

Sun Meets Global Demand for Alternative Desktop 
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/06-01-2004/0002184597&EDATE=TUE+Jun+01+2004,+09:06+AM> 
- The new Java Desktop System delivers a rich development environment 
for Linux and Java developers which includes the NetBeans IDE 3.6.

eWeek Reviews the NetBeans IDE 
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1579413,00.asp> - With unusual 
breadth of support for many types of Java projects, especially in such 
an inexpensive tool (freely downloadable or $9.95 on CD), NetBeans.org's 
NetBeans 3.6 maintains the open-source community's brisk pace of 
standards-based innovation while paving the way for important 
refinements of the Java language and platform.

Java set for a big leap forward 
<http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/716/040510javaleap/pfindex.html> - To 
maximize Java, Gosling suggested the usage of IDE (integrated 
development environment) tools that can assist in the whole development 
process. "There are tools for just about everybody," said Gosling. Come 
highly recommended is the NetBeans IDE which, said Gosling, is a core 
development tool which is also a platform for other tools being as 
extensible as NetBeans is.

Review: NetBeans 3.6 Usability 
<http://www.softwarereality.com/reviews/netbeans36.jsp> - Note that this 
is more of a usability review than a feature review. NetBeans is big on 
features (here's a list 
<http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/36/Whats_New.html> of what's 
new in 3.6 - its impressive). The feature list is one of NetBeans' major 
strong points. So if we take that as read, let's focus on the areas of 
this powerful IDE that really need improvement.

NetBeans 4.0 to Feature Refactoring, Ant Integration 
<http://sdtimes.com/news/101/story5.htm> - While NetBeans 3.6, which 
shipped in mid-April, sported a new interface, NetBeans 4.0, which is 
slated to ship in August, will feature a new project system that works 
with Apache Ant and will support changes in the Java programming language.

	
 
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	JUnit Test Generator (TG)
 
Students of Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia, have just 
completed the first phase of a JUnit Test Generator, which goes under 
the working title TG. Their initial goal was to provide a tool to for 
teachers and professors to automate the correction of student work. In 
the end, they have developed something with much wider applicability - a 
front end to JUnit which greatly simplifies and speeds the production of 
uni! t test scripts at the same time as giving the developer absolute 
flexibility in modifying these scripts to satisfy their unique 
requirements.

TG does the following:

    * Reads a Java class's properties and converts them to XML for easy
      manipulation;
    * Displays the class and its components in a browsable tree;
    * Allows tests to be appended to each of the public methods;
    * Provides a 'tool box' for adding common test elements - asserts,
      try catch blocks etc - to each test as it is built in a separate
      editor pane;
    * Uses a built in syntax highlighting editor for working on the tests;
    * Generates a native Java test case from the collection of tests;
    * Compiles and runs the test case;
    * Saves reloadable tests both as XML and as Java code.

TG incorporates numerous other features, which can be investigated by 
running the beta webstart version 
<http://cit3.cdn.swin.edu.au/tg/downloads> also available here 
<http://cit3.cdn.swin.edu.au/majorprojects_2004/js/downloads/webstart/TGW.jnlp>. 


There is an extensive help system for assisting with those aspects of 
the system which are not immediately obvious. Any feedback is very 
welcome - use the 'About' page for contact details, or the project home 
page at:

    * http://cit3.cdn.swin.edu.au/tg/

Phase two of the project will involve the development test control and 
distribution systems. We are hoping to make this an official NetBeans 
project. NetBeans is used by all our java students, and one option we 
will certainly be looking at is to integrate TG into the NetBeans IDE.

	
 
	[project homepage <http://cit3.cdn.swin.edu.au/tg>]  	 Wayne Abrehart