NetBeans

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NetBeans
Sun Microsystems
JA-SIG Vancouver, June, 2006
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Agenda

• What is NetBeans?
• A Brief Tour of the NetBeans IDE
• Setting up uPortal as a NetBeans project

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What Is NetBeans?

• There are three answers...
• 1 It is a Platform
• For building rich client applications that will
  run on any operating system that supports a
  standard JVM.
• Provides a rich framework of windows, menus, tool
  bars, actions, etc.
• Used for building a wide variety of applications

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What Is NetBeans?

• 2 It is an award-winning IDE
• For Java developers (but more languages are being
  added...)
• Free, open-source - http//www.netbeans.org
• 100 pure Java runs on any platform that has a
  JDK 1.4.2 or higher.
• Foundation for two other Sun IDEs
• Sun Java Studio Enterprise
• Sun Java Studio Creator

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What Is NetBeans?

• 3 It is a community
• Almost 10 million downloads of the IDE over 33
  of which happened in the last 12 months alone
• Increasing market share
• Over 300,000 subscribers to the email lists
• Community contributions
• You can join http//www.netbeans.org/community
  and http//developers.sun.com
• Third party partners....

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NetBeans Partners
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Road Map

• January, 2006 Version 5.0 Released
• May, 2006 Version 5.5 Beta Released
• Fall, 2006 Version 5.5 scheduled for release
• Java EE 5 Support
• EJB 3.0
• JWSDP 2.0
• CRUD application from entity classes
• And more....
• Enterprise Pack with UML, SOA, and XML Schema
  tools

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NetBeans IDE Tour

• What distinguishes the NetBeans IDE from others?
• Ant Based Project System
• Out of the box J2EE Support
• Database Explorer
• An integrated Profiler
• Collaboration tools

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NetBeans IDE Tour

• 1. Ant Based Project System
• Your Ant script is your project
• Projects are shareable, versionable
• Projects work from command line or in IDE
• Same thing happens for both
• Headless builds are possible
• Easy to hook up custom Ant targets to the IDE's
  user interface (menu or toolbar)

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NetBeans IDE Tour

• 2. J2EE Support
• Comprehensive out of the box support no
  searching for plugins in order to develop
• JSP, Servlet (Tomcat bundled with the IDE)
• EJB painless EJB development
• Web Services
• Lots of Sample Code
• Templates
• J2EE Blueprints Catalog comes in the IDE

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NetBeans IDE Tour

• 3. Database Explorer

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NetBeans IDE Tour

• 4. The NetBeans Profiler

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NetBeans IDE Tour

• 5. Collaboration

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More Information

• http//www.netbeans.org
• Gregg Sporars Blog Entries
• http//weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/
  02/uportal_develop_1.html
• http//weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/
  02/uportal_develop_2.html
• http//weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/
  02/uportal_develop_3.html
• http//weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/
  02/uportal_develop_4.html
• Contact me! (agherna_at_uiuc.edu)

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NetBeans
Sun Microsystems
JA-SIG Vancouver, June, 2006