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[ 06 Dec ][ News ]: NetBeans IDE Book Excerpts Now Available
The NetBeans IDE Field Guide is planned for release by Prentice Hall in June 2005 and will cover NetBeans IDE 4.1. Draft chapters on standard projects and freeform projects are now downloadable in PDF format from:http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/NBFieldGuide.html

ClientJava.com Links(6) - Java Graphing, JGoodies, Screenshots with Ja
Ole Jose, and swingworkers
I've been reviewing SwingWorkers lately. Too ugly for my liking. Somewhat difficult to use. I've been learning/playing with the new concurrent utilities in JDK 5.0. Oh, my, we needed those!

There are some real possibilities with the JGoodies stuff
It's not often I get excited about a library, but every once in a while there is something that comes along that so fits my current set of needs right now that I really like it. Swing based GUIs are notoriously verbose, the layouts are buggy, and generally make life difficult for you. Then comes along this form layout library that works with Swing instead of against it...

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Review: M7 NitroX 2.0 J2EE IDE
It's ironic that J2EE is pushing its fifth version soon and it's still all but impossible to find a good integrated development environment (IDE). OK, yes, there are a few proprietary ones--but doesn't that go against the whole notion of using an "open"platform? Drew Falkman stumbled upon M7's NitroX recently, and had a good feeling about it. They were saying all the right things, so he thought he'd take it for a test ride.

Go ask Alice
Taking a trip through the Looking Glass

Fatten Up Your Java UIs with JGoodies

Fatten Up Your Java UIs with JGoodies
Perhaps the single biggest challenge in writing Java applications is dealing with UI issues. Regardless of the application's power and flexibility, people will always want it to look familiar?to look like a Windows application. With JGoodies you can give them what they want, and a whole lot more besides...

Devx overview of JGoodies.

Test(i)ng
Alternative to JUnit?

Project Looking Glass: Its Architecture and Sneak Preview of the API
Bring a richer user experience to the desktop and to applications, through 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. This article covers Project Looking Glass' main features and API, its basic organization, and the functionality of important classes.

Service Oriented Architecture - Part 2
Part 2 of our series focuses more on the technical aspects of Service Oriented Architecture and we begin to put together a framework.