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- NetBeans
- A Java-based development environment IDE and platform originally developed by Sun. It includes user interface functions, source code editor, GUI editor, version control as well as support for distributed...
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- Sun wows Java crowd with NetBeans 6.0 preview
- Hundreds of attendees for Suns fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0. This year, NetBeans Day was included as part of CommunityOne, a free one-day conference devoted to community-based...
- Tags: Sun, Scripting, Programming, NetBeans, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Sun and Canonical to distribute Java with Ubuntu Linux
- A complete Sun Java stack, including Java SE 6, GlassFish, JavaDB, and NetBeans, is now available with the latest release of Ubuntu v7.04 Feisty Fawn. Users can find it in the "multiverse" repository and install the packages just like any other Ubuntu programs, according to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth."Last November...
- Tags: Sun, Licenses, Programming, NetBeans, Linux, Java, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- NetBeans Day subsumed by CommunityOne
- To reflect an increasing emphasis on open technologies at Sun, NetBeans Day will have to scoot over a bit to make room for several other topics on the day before JavaOne (May 7, 2007).The free one-day event, now called CommunityOne, is designed for developers to gain technical information on free...
- Tags: Sun, Programming, NetBeans, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- EclipseCon 2007 wrap-up
- EclipseZone editor Alex Blewitt calls this years EclipseCon "the most successful yet". He writes that there were 1,353 attendees from 447 different companies who attended 368 sessions: "Its been a fantastically busy EclipseCon, and Ive only just managed to keep up with the blog entries. I hope youve found them...
- Tags: Blogging, Java development tools, EclipseCon
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it
- Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone willfully using his work without attribution, and then filing for a patent on it that could prevent him from using it himself?Kölling is one of the creators...
- Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, Commercial, NetBeans, Patents, Community, Microsoft, Programming, BlueJ team, Michael Kölling
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Eclipse joins Java Community Process (JCP)
- Its been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Suns Java Community Process JCP organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But today it finally happened: Eclipse joined JCP. Eclipse Director Mike Milinkovich writes:There are some who are...
- Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, NetBeans, Community, Sun, JCP
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Top stories from 2006
- With 2007 around the corner its traditional to reflect on the past year and pick out the topics that were the most important, most read, or generated the most comments. Before I do that, though, I want to thank all my readers for making this one of the top blogs...
- Tags: Sun, Programming, Google, Microsoft, Scripting, Community, Patents, AJAX, NetBeans, Web Browsers, Licenses, Commercial, Java, Eclipse, Mozilla Firefox, Nintendo Co. Ltd., General
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Happy 5th Birthday, Eclipse
- The Eclipse Foundation celebrated the 5th anniversary of the popular open source development platform today. It was November 7, 2001 when IBM first released Eclipse as an open source project. At the time, the contribution was valued at $40 million, but has spawned over a billion dollar ecosystem according...
- Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, NetBeans, Community, Microsoft, Programming
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Eclipse: 637, Netbeans: 7
- Between outsourcing and constant technological change, developers have to constantly keep themselves up to date. If the challenge of learning new stuff isn't enough and it should be, consider that you never know when that pink slip could arrive, no matter how stable your company is.Of course the trick is...
- Tags: Eclipse, netBeans
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- Google opens up to outside contributors
- A few weeks ago, Google opened up development of their Google Web Toolkit and released the whole system under the Apache license. Now theyve taken the next logical step, by accepting their first outside contributor to the project: Sandy McArthur. I caught up with Sandy after the announcement to ask...
- Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, Licenses, NetBeans, AJAX, Scripting, Community, Programming, Google, GWT, Sandy McArthur
- Blog posts 2000-01-18
Additional Resources
- Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at Ganymede
- Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at Ganymedecomparison to netbeans?I keep hearing really good things about netbeans... is there a comparison between the two?RE: Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at GanymedeEveryone know Ganymede was destroyed in the Inter Galactic wars. Leaving the Doctor as the lone survivor.Depends on your needsI jumped...
- Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Eclipse, Ganymede, Eclipse 2008
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- GWT fireside chat
- I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Does OpenOffice.org fall short?
- Does OpenOffice.org fall short?Java Slow?!?No... although OO does have Java hooks, it is not written in Java. EVEN IF IT WAS, Java is no longer a performance dog. We need to debunk that notion once and for all.Yes, poor applications can still be written in Java, but that...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Java, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Don't expect a flood of Mac open source
- Don't expect a flood of Mac open sourceYes, given that Mac is BSD based, it does not take much to get a whole lotof open source programs running on Mac. The biggest problem is that many of the GUI applications do not have the Mac look and feel. Does Apple...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, open source, software, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-25
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from SunYou've got things mixed upMary,You clearly do not understand the Rich internet Applications space very well ...there a lot of mistakes in the article that i have to correct ...[b]"Sun is building on top of JavaFX"[/b]The more appropriate word here would...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaFX, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET
- The Eclipse organization has amassed a huge installed base of developers using its Java-based open source development tools. Now the organization has set its sights on the run-time arena and will take on Sun's Java and Microsoft's .NET with what it says is an agnostic open source component model that...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Java, Eclipse, Eclipse Organization, Equinox, Run-time, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available
- Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly availabledoes anyone really care about pricey M$ tools?even on windoze there are better and free development tools created by the community.I don't even count Linux because M$ is a 'no show' here.RE: Vista and Windows Server 2008--an unbreakable couple?Huh? This isn't the article...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, tool, FoxPro
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?
- Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?Java and NiagaraHow can you have an entire discussion about Sun's future growth without even mentioning Java and Niagara? This almost seems like a willful oversight. Niagara is designed for the modern blade-based server cluster farms. It is designed for energy efficiency -...
- Tags: Programming languages, Sun NetBeans, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara, Java 6
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
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