Download NetBeans IDE 5.0 Beta, the release that introduces comprehensive support for developing IDE modules and rich client applications based on the NetBeans Platform, the new intuitive GUI builder Matisse, new and redesigned CVS support, Weblogic9 and JBoss 4 support, and a lot of editor enhancements.
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Palm Has Designs on Microsoft Mobile
In a major shift in the PDA industry, Palm (Quote, Chart) is expected to announce today that its Treo 700 smartphone will be powered by the Microsoft (Quote, Chart) mobile operating system.
Palm President and CEO Ed Colligan, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Verizon Wireless CEO [...]

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JDocs.com is a very nice collection of (at the moment of writing) 132 searchable API’s. The javadocs of the most popular opensource projects have been indexed and to provide a bit of added value users can leave notes at every javadoc entry (a class, a method etc) found in the JDocs database. Very handy when [...]

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A few days ago JbBoss announced the beta release of a new EJB3 and JSF based application framework: SEAM. Yet another framework? Should I invest some time or just ignore it like all the others that came along the last one and a half year?
An interesting post on the groupblog of Hibernate opened my eyes [...]

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To close the day, one more blog (no content without writing). Today, Magnolia Organization LLC announced a beta version of their JSR-170 (Content Repository for JavaTM technology API) compliant content management system that has been extended by Apple’s Quick time technology in order to provide tooling around the publishing of Digital Media: MagnoliaQT. Read the [...]

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Eric v/d Laan, responsible for the JCC, has asked to come up with some topics for the upcoming NLJUD. Why not post a blog with some ideas? So here are my five cents:

AJAX, not the football club from Amsterdam, but the technology to create rich internet applications using javascript, XML and DHTML, seems to [...]

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The never ending religious war about frameworks, which to use for what purpose in combination with yet another framework, will probably really never end. Nothing wrong with that, good discussion about the technical fundamentals of your next j2ee project can better be fought out before you start coding. But instead of fighting, it might be [...]

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