Full Description
Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition is the second Apress book to cover the agile, open source NetBeans IDE platform. The book focuses on the new features of NetBeans 6 as well as what has changed since NetBeans 5.5, empowering you to be a more effective and productive developer.
Enables you to click and use any of the Java Swing and other desktop Java graphical user interface (GUI) APIs available in Java SE 6 or prior
Covers working with rich client platform features available in NetBeans for building web-based application front ends
Shows you the web-tier development plug-ins available including JSF, Struts Action Framework 2.0, and JRuby for bringing the Ruby on Rails feature set to Java via NetBeans
For building back-end, server-side Java applications, pick up Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition, which is based on APIs found in the Java EE 5.
Contents
Intro to Netbeans Tools and Features.- Integrated Development Environments.- Downloading, Installing, Customizing.- Working with Java Projects.- The Source Editor (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Code Completion (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Refactoring (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Netbeans Debugger.- Netbeans Software Development Tools (Javadoc, CVS, Ant, JUnit, Checkstyle, etc.- Netbeans Profiler (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Netbeans Collaboration Tools.- Netbeans Database Tools (Heavily updated for expected changes in NB 6.0).- Part 2 - Java GUI / Swing Development.- Netbeans GUI Project Features.- Developing a Swing Application From Start to Finish.- Deploying GUI Applications / Java Web Start.- Part 3 - Plug-in and Rich Client Application Development (mostly w/JSF).- Plug-in Module Tools and Features.- Developing a Plug-in From Start to Finish.- Developing Rich Client Applications.- Struts Action Framework 2 plug-ins.- JRuby/Ruby on Rails plug-ins.-Appendix : Netbeans IDE Blue-J Edition.
