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NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition
NetBeans.org and BlueJ.org are proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition.

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This special edition of NetBeans IDE is a collaboration between the NetBeans community and the University of Kent, England. The NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition is targeted at teachers and students familiar with the popular BlueJ tool (www.bluej.org). The NetBeans BlueJ Edition helps you "make the jump" from BlueJ to a full-featured IDE, either when your projects have grown too big to fit comfortably into BlueJ, or when you want to use features such as code completion and drag-and-drop GUI building, which BlueJ doesn't directly support.

NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition is available in English and has been localized into simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese. The 5.5.1 version includes fixes of several bugs that were in the 5.0 version.

To learn more about using BlueJ and NetBeans in education, see edu.netbeans.org/bluej .

  (Jun 01, 2007)

NetBeans Weekly Newsletter - Issue 293
Week of May 28 - Contents include: NetBeans 5.5.1 Released, Using NetBeans's BPEL, JBI & Web Services Development Features, Provide Your Feedback on 6.0 Preview, Vote NetBeans @ the JDJ Readers' Choice Awards, GlassFish Contest, Get Daily Dose of Dilbert on Your Mobile Device, VWP: Redirection When a Session Times Out, Resources for Building JavaFX Desktop Apps and much more.
  (May 29, 2007)

NetBeans Podcast Episode #29
Hot topics discussed in the 29th episode of the NetBeans podcast include the release of NetBeans 5.5.1; a Glassfish debate and demo; the goldmine of technical articles loaded into the third issue of NetBeans Magazine; and what happens to those who bet against NetBeans. And as always, the NetBeans Puzzler.

NetBeans Worldwide - JAX'07 conference in Germany
Editor's Note: Read the news story about the Audience Award for Innovation here.

Between April 23rd and 27th 2007 you could meet the NetBeans team at JAX, one of the largest and most important conferences for Java Enterprise technologies in Europe. The conference was held in the beautiful city of Wiesbaden, Germany, right around the corner from Frankfurt am Main.

  (May 28, 2007)

NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 Now Available
NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 5.5.1.

• Download NetBeans IDE 5.5.1
• Release Information

NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 supports the "v2" release of the open source GlassFish server, which is the basis for Sun Java System Application Server 9.1. GlassFish v2 can be downloaded from the GlassFish project page at http://glassfish.dev.java.net/. NetBeans 5.5.1 also adds Windows Vista as a supported platform. The NetBeans Mobility Pack includes the J2ME Wireless Toolkit, version 2.5.1. NetBeans 5.5.1 builds on the functionality of NetBeans 5.5 and also provides several bug fixes. For a list a complete list of NetBeans 5.5 features, see the 5.5 Release Page.

NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 is available in English and has been localized into simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese. In order to download localizations first go to the 5.5.1 NB download page and then click on Other Systems & Languages.

As always, we welcome and encourage your feedback and the sharing of your experience using NetBeans on our mailing lists and in your blogs!

  (May 24, 2007)

Meet a NetBeans Module Writer: Caoyuan Deng
Caoyuan Deng is a developer in Canada who is using the brand new Schliemann approach to create language features for Erlang in NetBeans IDE. For the uninintiated, "Schliemann" allows you to declaratively assign NetBeans IDE language features to tokens and grammar, instead of requiring you to implement a long list of NetBeans APIs to create language features, such as code completion, for a file type. (For more information on Schliemann, go here.) And what is "Erlang"? Read the interview below to find out...

New Expert Preso: NetBeans Visual Library
NetBean's Roman Strobl returns with some super slick demos of the new NetBeans Visual Library in NetBeans 6.0. Watch as he shows you what makes their Mobility and JSF tools tick.
  (May 17, 2007)

Plug into the Sun Grid with NetBeans IDE
The Sun Grid Module Suite for NetBeans IDE enables access to the Sun Grid Compute Utility (SGCU) at Network.com directly from within NetBeans.

The SGCU provides easy access to an enormous computing resource over the Internet.

With this plugin you can develop Java applications for the SGCU, deploy and execute applications with a single click, create Resources and Jobs, and run Jobs and monitor their progress. It also provides mechanisms for automating the deployment and execution of applications targeted for the SGCU.

More information (including installation and usage examples) is available at sungrid.dev.java.net and sungridplugin.dev.java.net.

JavaFX and NetBeans
JavaFX is a new family of Sun products based on Java technology and targeted at the high impact, rich content market and is initially comprised of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile. Project OpenJFX is a project of the OpenJFX community for sharing early versions of the JavaFX Script language and for collaborating on its development.

Plug-ins are already available through the Update Centers for both NetBeans 5.5 and NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 9. There are install instructions on the Project OpenJFX site.

Getting Started with NASA's World Wind Java SDK
Geertjan gives you a step-by-step introduction to World Wind Java SDK in his blog. At the end, 7 steps later, you have the World Wind Globe spinning happily in a Java application. You can zoom and pan as well. And all for three lines of code!
  (May 15, 2007)

NetBeans Day San Francisco: Bigger and Better
Were you not able to make it to the largest NetBeans Day of them all in San Francisco? Here is your chance to catch up with all of the announcements, details and fun!