[ 24 Jan ][ News ]: Mevenide 0.5 for NetBeans
The mevenide team has announced the Mevenide NetBeans project support 0.5 release.New Features:In project customizer show list of available maven plugins and theirproperties.Test Resources and Castus Test Sources added to project view.In project view allow to filter the resource directory structure. Either show all files or just the included ones. Showing only included resources is the default now.[more information &download]

No class at all
Helping Newbies

Good Java Based Forum For Integration?

I'm still working part time on the resource directory. Doesn't anyone have any experience integrating in third party forum software. I'd like to add commenting ability to each resource. I'm looking for a good Java based solution that won't make me install a ton of Struts, Tapestry etc. Something simple. I'm basing the resource directory on Hibernate, Spring, and WW2 in case you are curious. It would also be nice to be able to plug in my own user authentication. I'm either going to get the user system out of something else like AppFuse or write my own.

What about a java.net track?
As long as the JavaOne Call for Papers hasn't gone out yet . . .

Book Review: Advanced UNIX Programming, 2nd Edition
The updated version of this classic text is as well written, detailed and informative as the original.

[ 07 Dec ][ News ]: The VCS Team is Asking For Your Feedback
VCS support is an important part of NetBeans, which allows for the smooth integration of versioning operations against different target VCS systems into the overall IDE development workflow.NetBeans' VCS team is currently working on laying out the future direction of development and would like to understandthe usage of its' current functionality. The aim is to identify the most useful features as well as potential deficiencies to be addressed in upcoming NetBeans releases.By taking the time to complete this short survey you will directly contribute to building a better NetBeans IDE.The survey begins December 7th and will continue until Wednesday, December 22nd. Continue to Survey >>>

It's not that hard to support JNLP

It's not that hard to support JNLP
I created a sweet (and useful) little app today but I can't find a place to deploy it because neither of my providers supports the JNLP mime-type...

Poor guy, foiled by a mime-type.

Do we need another UI framework?

Do we need another UI framework?
...The only area, where Java positions are weak, is desktop application development. It is hard to decline this as I do not know of many desktop applications written in Java, except tools for Java developers. ..Usual Swing and SWT discussions point me to the answer: developers and customers experience problems with these frameworks.

In my opinion this piece does not make a convincing argument. It raises a number of points that are open for debate. Speed is mentioned as a key factor with Swing. I would be curious to see what the speed differences were in terms of raw numbers compared to native OS actions. I'm also not sure that building a new framework on top of SWT solves major problems. Tweaking the OO structure of interacting with SWT is fine. However, this isn't going to completely solve the subclassing issue that is mentioned for instance. If your framework is build on SWT, then it is ultimately going to be the lowest common denominator.

Book Review: Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management
This well-written book by one of the leaders of the phpMyAdmin community covers a lot of ground--and might get you interested in working on the project.