NetBeans IDE 4.0 Now Available!
NetBeans is the first open source IDE to support the new Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 language features, and is the first IDE to base its project system entirely on Apache Ant. Other key features include a new Java technology performance profiler and refactoring capabilities, as well as additional mobile development support. [Press Release]

Download NetBeans IDE 4.0:
http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

NetBeans 4.0 bundled with Java's next generation, J2SE 5.0 Update 1:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Documentation List:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html

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.

[ 22 Nov ][ News ]: NetBeans Governance Board Elections
It's time again to elect a new NetBeans Governance Board! All the information that you need to take part in the elections are contained and linked to from this email.For reference the current nominations and the actual voting results can be followed here.At this time we are asking for you to submit your nominations for the community members you wish to be considered for the NetBeans Governance Board. Send an e-mail with your nominations to the nbdiscuss@netbeans.org alias, or to info@netbeans.org e-mail (unlike nbdiscuss does not requireyou to subscribe first). nbdiscuss is the preferred channel as it is moreopen and the traffic is relatively low.The e-mail should contain a list of any number of names for the people you would like to be included in the list of nominees and included in the actual voting.The DEADLINE for nominations is Sunday, December 5, midnight in the last time zone.The nomination &voting schedule as follows:November 22 - December 05: Two-week nomination periodDecember 06 - December 19: Two-week official polling periodDecember 20, 2004 - New Board to be announced to communityMore information can be found at:NetBeans Election ProcessNetBeans GovernanceNetBeans Board Pages

Linux in a Windows Workstation Environment, Part I
Even if the users still want to use Windows on the desktop, you can put Linux behind the scenes.

Book Review - Know Your Enemy: Learning About Security Threats
If you're looking to investigate potential security risks on your network, read this book first.

ClientJava.com Links(4) - TheServerSide MVC Comments, JDIC Systray I

Java GUI on TheServerSide
TheServerSide has taken a broad view of its subject area publishing Andrei Adamchik take on Swing development. It's an interesting subject that has been neglected. Very little written goes past a naive, instant gratification HelloWorld (disclaimer: I have no Swings books - none has grabbed me as worth killing trees for). I have differing opinions to Andrei on the direction first class Swing usage should be going. This is my take...

Professional Swing Clients
After the initial excitement following Swing's release began to wear off, developers started to ask questions: Why was it so slow?; Why didn't it look native?; Why was the footprint so large? Swing has still not been widely accepted as a viable consumer quality rich client widget set. Some developers have cried hogwash. They are actively developing Swing applications that rock. Here is a listing of some great Swing applications...

Swing: System Tray Icons
One 'native'feature you often see in applications is the concept of a 'tray'icon. Different platforms have different concepts when it comes to 'tray'icons, but in general the theory is this: have an icon for an application in some dockable area that can be (right) clicked on to provide a menu suited for that application...

XML to Swing and the Gradual API

ClientJava.com Links(8) - Looking Glass in Detail, Flex &Java, Process

Project Looking Glass Detailed
Project Looking Glass (LG3D) exploits Java technology to 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. You'll get an understanding of its high level architecture and where further development contributions are needed.

JList as a container (in Horror Code)
I really hate it when a developer uses a Swing object for the sole purpose of storing data. Mainly when this container is never displayed on the screen. This is the code that I found in our program...

Swing: File System Fun Surveying Swing's File System Fiew (I mean View)

JExpress Professional 6.9
The JExpress Professional installer and auto-updater development team has released version 6.9. "This version creates significantly smaller and faster installers, typically with 10% to 40% reduction in space and time.

Move over Avalon! Project Looking Glass is here!
Many of you have heard of Project Looking Glass , the 3D GUI framework being developed on top of Java3D. Some of you might have even seen the presentation video and wondered when you would get to play with this stuff.

Processing Image Pixels using Java, Controlling Contrast and Brightness by Modifying the Color Distribution
This is the third lesson in a series designed to teach you how to use Java to create special effects with images by directly manipulating the pixels in the images.

Integrating Macromedia Flex with Java

Using Jazzy - The Java Open Source Spell Checker
I recently gave a presentation at ApacheCon 2004 US and I used an open source product in my presentation. The product I used was Jazzy, The Open Source Java Spell Checker. While creating my presentation, I created a static class that initialized and exposed the Jazzy Spell Checker. I don't know if it is of any use to anyone else, but here is an excerpt from that presentation.

ClientJava.com Links(5) - Java License Managers, Swing Sightings, JTab
Editing a cell with double-clickEditing a cell with double-click
To modify the number of clicks that is needed to edit a cell in a JTable, you have to look for the Editor class. So if you did not modify the column class, and did not set your own editor, you can set the edition to be activated on double-click with the following line...

Swing Sightings Preview: DbWrench

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iText Document Generator: PDF Generation Made Easy
Finally, there's an application server that provides PDF document-generation support. This Java-based API can be used to simultaneously generate PDF, rich text, and HTML documents.