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SIG Vancouver, June, 2006

NetBeans






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Agenda

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What is NetBeans?

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A Brief Tour of the NetBeans IDE

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Setting up uPortal as a NetBeans project

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What Is NetBeans?

There are three answers...

#1: It is a Platform

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For building rich client applications that will run on
any

operating system that supports a standard JVM.

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Provides a rich framework of windows, menus, tool
bars, actions, etc.

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Used for building a wide variety of applications

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What Is NetBeans?

#2: It is an award
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winning IDE

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For Java developers (but more languages are being
added...)

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Free
, open
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source
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http://www.netbeans.org

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100% pure Java
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runs on any platform that has a JDK
1.4.2 or higher.

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Foundation for two other Sun IDEs:

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Sun Java Studio Enterprise

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Sun Java Studio Creator

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What Is NetBeans?

#3: It is a community

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Almost 10 million downloads of the IDE
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over 33%
of which happened in the last 12 months alone

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Increasing market share

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Over 300,000 subscribers to the email lists

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Community contributions:

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You can join:
http://www.netbeans.org/community

and
http://developers.sun.com

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Third party partners....

NetBeans Partners

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Road Map

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January, 2006: Version 5.0 Released

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May, 2006: Version 5.5 Beta Released

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Fall, 2006: Version 5.5 scheduled for release

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Java EE 5 Support

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EJB 3.0

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JWSDP 2.0

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CRUD application from entity classes

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And more....

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Enterprise Pack with UML, SOA, and XML Schema tools

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NetBeans IDE Tour

What distinguishes the NetBeans IDE from
others?

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Ant Based Project System

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Out of the box J2EE Support

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Database Explorer

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An integrated Profiler

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Collaboration tools


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NetBeans IDE Tour

1. Ant Based Project System

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Your Ant script
is

your project

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Projects are shareable, versionable

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Projects work from command line or in IDE

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Same thing happens for both

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Headless builds are possible

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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

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Comprehensive
out of the box

support
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no searching
for plugins in order to develop:

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JSP, Servlet (Tomcat bundled with the IDE)

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EJB
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painless

EJB development

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Web Services

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Lots of Sample Code:

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Templates

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J2EE Blueprints Catalog comes in the IDE

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NetBeans IDE Tour

3. Database Explorer

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4. The NetBeans Profiler



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NetBeans IDE Tour

5. Collaboration

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More Information

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http://www.netbeans.org

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Gregg Sporar’s Blog Entries:

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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/02
/uportal_develop_1.html

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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/02
/uportal_develop_2.html

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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/02
/uportal_develop_3.html

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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2006/02
/uportal_develop_4.html

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Contact me! (agherna@uiuc.edu)


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SIG Vancouver, June, 2006

NetBeans



Sun Microsystems

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SIG Vancouver, June, 2006