Coming Soon: Magic in NetBeans Form Designer
Michael Urban wrote “One of the biggest frustrations with GUI design in Java is struggling with layout managers to get complex forms to look good. However, that will all soon be a thing of the past. ”...
View ArticleInterview with Netbeans Director of Engineering
[tss] Joseph Ottinger wrote: “Timothy Cramer, Director of Engineering for Netbeans, was interviewed by TSS, focusing on Netbeans’ adoption rate, positioning, future capabilities, and – of course –...
View ArticleJames Gosling on Java
/. prostoalex writes “It’s been ten years since the official introduction of Java – a programming language combined with virtual machine and a class library. ZDNet published an interview with James...
View ArticleXML Enhancements for Java 1.1 released
IBM releases XML toolkit for Java providing native XML features to the Java EE 1.4. IBM XML Enhancements for Java, part of their Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK), has released a tool for providing...
View ArticleOSCON2005: Ruby is hot, Java is cool, C# is neither
Greg Luck writes his impressions of OSCON 2005, in Portland, Oregon, USA. At OSCON 2005 there was a lot of interest in Ruby. Ruby is the hot new? language popularised by Rails. Rails is derived...
View Article3D Graphics for Java Mobile Devices
Claus Höfele has written a nice introduction to 3D graphics on Mobile Java Devices. This article, the first in a two-part series, describes the Mobile 3D Graphics API (JSR 184). The author introduces...
View ArticleRelease: NetBeans 5.0
NetBeans — My favorite Java / J2EE development environment, har just been released in version 5.0, much have changed since the 3.x, 4.x versions and I warmly recommend any Java developer to download...
View ArticleVisualStudio User Tries Matisse
When I first tried out the NetBeans GUI Builder Matisse, I was as skeptical as I would be with any Java GUI builder. They never turn out to be exactly what you’d expect; even IDEA’s designer,...
View ArticleQuick Test: Cantoo WebTest 2.0
I just did a quick test and brief evaluation of Cantoo WebTest – a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications. I found it pretty good and intuitive, and I think it has a rather...
View ArticleJava goes Open Source
So it finally happened, Sun relicensed Java to the GNU Public License (GPL), the most widely used Open Source license. I welcome this move and look forward to seeing where it will take the Java and...
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