JavaOne 2006 News

TS-2670 Twelve Reasons to Use NetBeans

Date & Time : 27-JUN-05, 3:30 PM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Charles Ditzel, Inyoung Cho and Tim Cramer - Sun Microsystems
Description :

The NetBeans™ interactive development environment offers a wealth of features today that a short time ago it lacked. Today many developers have put down some of their existing tools and taken to using the NetBeans IDE because a number of new features offer developers compelling reasons to use it. This talk focuses on some key reasons why developers should consider using the NetBeans IDE.

TS-2845 NetBeans Mobility Pack: Living up to Developer Expectations

Date & Time : 29-JUN-05, 1:30 PM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Karel Herink, Matt Volpi - Sun Microsystems; Thomas Bailey - Sony Ericsson
Description :

Developers are continuously being offered tools, SDKs, code, and documentation to make the creation of applications for mobile devices easier than ever before. One offer is the NetBeans™ IDE Mobility Pack: Is this just another IDE or does it really live up to the hype?

This session strips away the marketing hype and demonstrates how to create mobile applications with the NetBeans IDE Mobility Pack, with a focus on integration between the NetBeans IDE and the Sony Ericsson Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME™) SDK. We also include an in-depth look into on-device debugging with a demonstration of the interaction between the NetBeans IDE and a Sony Ericsson device during a live debugging session.

Topics include:

• Introduction to the NetBeans IDE Mobility Pack
• Tour of the IDE
• Project Wizard
• J2ME Productivity Tools
• Extending the IDE
• Integrating Sony Ericsson SDK
• Managing device fragmentation
• On-device debugging
• Benefits of on-device debugging over emulator debugging
• On-device debugging from the IDE perspective
• Demonstrating of on-device debugging

TS-4181 How to Build Rich Desktop Client Applications Using NB Platform 4.0

Date & Time : 29-JUN-05; 4:00 PM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Jaroslav Tulach - Sun Microsystems; Rich Unger - Nuance Communications
Description :

Any desktop application has to solve a similar set of problems: usability look and feel settings management and presentation support for drag-and-drop UI design localization management of menus and toolbars wizards help system integration and much more. Developing such an application from scratch can waste many years solving problems that every other desktop application has also had to solve. It is especially wasteful when a free open standards-based solution is available. This talk is a continuation of the successful 2004 JavaOne^SM conference session TS-1694: Desktop Application Architecture I: Using the NetBeans™ Platform Application Framework to Create a Rich Client Application. It describes the changes and improvements that have been achieved during the last year and gives a live line-by-line demonstration of how to build a sample application (an RSS feed browser) on the NetBeans Platform 4.0. By showing the results together with steps on how to reach them the session promises to be interesting for newcomers as well as NetBeans platform ISVs looking to ensure they do the right things in the right way.

TS-7143 Project Jackpot: A New Java™ Technology for Source Transformation

Date & Time : 28-JUN-05, 1:30 PM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Tom Ball - Sun Microsystems
Description :

Project Jackpot is the code name for a technology that enables developers to make sweeping source file changes safely by combining the best of refactoring and rules engines. Jackpot works with the javac compiler's front-end to apply rules and transformations that preserve a program's behavior then updates the program's source files with the minimum set of changes. We discuss what Jackpot is detail how it works and describe how this technology may be rolled into future products. This is an advanced talk for those interested in refactoring Java™ technology re-engineering and compiler-related topics.

TS-6116 Write Once, Plug Everywhere: Extending the Major Java IDEs - NetBeans, Eclipse, and JBuilder

Date & Time : 29-JUN-05, 9:45 AM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Mark Howe - Borland; Bob Evans - Agitar Software
Description :

Ever wanted to add cool functionality to your favorite IDE? Well why write a plug-in for just one IDE when you can write it for three IDEs? We show you how to write a plug-in that will run in NetBeans™ Eclipse and JBuilder IDEs. We focus on abstracting your plug-in's code and then writing adapters to each IDE's plug-in API. We highlight the differences in the IDEs that developers will need to address and give suggested solutions. Developers who attend this session will be able to make better decisions about building their plug-ins in a cross-IDE way.

BOF-9156 GUI Design in a Natural Way: Layout Manager Using the New NetBeans

Date & Time : 29-JUN-05, 7:30 PM
Location : Golden Gate C1 Marriott
Speaker : Tomas Pavek, Dusan Pavlica - Sun Microsystems
Description :

To date designing professional cross-platform GUIs with Java™ Foundation Classes/Swing technology (JFC/Swing) has been tedious and error prone. Developers are forced to write cryptic code for an inherently visual task. This has resulted in numerous less than appealing Java technology GUIs as well as unmaintainable code. The new version of the NetBeans™ software GUI builder focuses directly on this problem?making the layout design of visual forms easy for everyone without the need to know JFC/Swing layout principles. The GUI builder exposes simple layout rules that the user is able to understand and use quickly. It lets the user lay out components freely providing assistance for optimal spacing between components and easy aligning and it infers resizing behavior and more. In the background it produces a layout implementation using layout managers and other JFC/Swing constructs. Besides seeing the new tool in action you'll also learn what it means to create a good-looking scalable and well-behaved UI. We also cover details of the layout manager being used and look at the generated code.

TS-7302 Coding Across Continents: Technologies for Remote, Real-Time, Collaborative Software Development

Date & Time : 29-JUN-05, 12:15PM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Todd Fast - Sun Microsystems
Description :

Developing software in a distributed team although increasingly common remains a serious challenge. We can collaborate with each other online anytime using email instant messaging the Web newsgroups bulletin boards wikis and blogs but only within frustrating limits because these technologies do not specifically target nor completely meet the needs of software developers. Perhaps ironically the authors of these technologies are in desperate need of collaborative tools that work together easily and address their special advanced collaboration needs. We call this new domain developer collaboration and fortunately the time has come for collaboration tailored to the needs of software developers to finally make collaborative software development significantly easier regardless of the distance between team members. As pioneers on the developer collaboration frontier we present the main use cases for developer collaboration a vision for the future of developer collaboration and the work we've done to collaboration-enable the NetBeans™ IDE. We present a number of technologies developed at Sun that you can use to reach new levels of developer collaboration today: the technology-neutral MOXC ( Moxie ) collaboration messaging protocol running atop XMPP the CollabBeans API and the Collablet API. We also demonstrate using these technologies to build a new collablet for the NetBeans IDE.

TS-7725 J2EE™ Ease of Development: Platform Specification and Tools Perspective

Date & Time : 28-JUN-05, 4:00 PM
Location : Esplanade 304/306 Moscone
Speaker : Ludovic Champenois - Sun Microsystems
Description :

One of the main themes for Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ platform) 5.0 (JSR-244) is ease of development (EOD). New specifications (metadata, annotations, better default values and more) are under consideration. At the same time, Java technology tools are evolving rapidly (Eclipse, NetBeans™, IntelliJ) and introducing features that try to hide the complexity of the plumbing aspects of the J2EE platform. The combination of the two (platform and tools) will dramatically change the way J2EE technology developers work and help them to concentrate on their core competencies: business logic and declarative interaction with the J2EE technology containers.

This session covers:

• The current J2EE platform 5.0 ease of development features, with an IDE user perspective
• Web Services Metadata (JSR-181), simplifying model for web services programming
• Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB™) technology 3.0 (JSR-220), greatly improving the EJB architecture by reducing its complexity from the developer's point of view
• JavaServer Pages™ technology 2.1 (JSR-245), improving alignment with JavaServer™ Faces technology and enhanced ease of development
• Some current solutions exposed by some IDEs to help the developer today using J2EE platform 1.4. (NetBeans™ software 4.1 and possibly another IDE will be used as an example)
• How future versions of IDEs can use the benefits of the J2EE platform 5.0 to expand further the ease of development and debugging for J2EE technology-based applications
• J2EE technology common developer tasks (Call an Enterprise Bean, Call a Web Service Operation, Use a Database, Send a Mail, use Java Message Service)
• Zero Configuration Tools that can help hide entirely the Deployment Descriptors (For example, NetBeans software 4.1 and it's current J2EE platform 1.4 support)
• How a J2EE platform 5.0 IDE could use the annotations to simplify the J2EE technology developer tasks

(Look for Part Two of this program here.)