Re: Please preview this months NetBeans Edge

Hi Rob-

Please resend.  The attachment hasn't come through.

-Ray
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Demmer 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:09 AM
  Subject: [nbmarketing] Please preview this months NetBeans Edge


  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].

  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 
        From:  [email protected] 
        To:  [email protected] 



               
       
         
         
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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]. 

                    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: 

                      a.. The latest advances in NetBeans Technology 
                      b.. Developing NetBeans Plug-ins for the IDE & Platform 
                      c.. J2EE Development With NetBeans 
                      d.. Building Mobile Applications With NetBeans 
                      e.. NetBeans Partners 
                      f.. 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.
                    
                      
                   [NetBeans Day information]     
                     
                     
                   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.
                    
                      
                   [order the NetBeans software media kit]     
                     
                     
                   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: 

                      a.. Vincent Brabant 
                      b.. Meg Garrison 
                      c.. Glenn Holmer 
                      d.. David Strupl 
                      e.. Lluis Turro 
                      f.. Rich Unger 
                    Best wishes to all of our fine candidates! 
                    
                      
                   [view candidate profiles and vote]     
                     
                     
                   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. 

                    JRefactory - Refactoring 

                    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 

                    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 

                    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 

                    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 

                    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. 
                    
                      
                   [module catalogue]     
                     
                     
                   Press & Articles
                     
                    Updated Web Apps FAQ - If you are developing Web Apps and have questions this page is a good place to start. 
                    Corrected Web Module Quick Start URL - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Note that this is more of a usability review than a feature review. NetBeans is big on features (here's a list 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 - 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.
                    
                      
                   [press archives]     
                     
                     
                   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: 

                      a.. Reads a Java class's properties and converts them to XML for easy manipulation; 
                      b.. Displays the class and its components in a browsable tree; 
                      c.. Allows tests to be appended to each of the public methods; 
                      d.. 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; 
                      e.. Uses a built in syntax highlighting editor for working on the tests; 
                      f.. Generates a native Java test case from the collection of tests; 
                      g.. Compiles and runs the test case; 
                      h.. 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 also available here. 
                    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: 

                      a.. 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]   Wayne Abrehart