During his excellent demo of the new features in NetBeans 4.1, Roman Strobl shows how easy it is to create a client that uses Google's web services API. Brian Leonard also does a demo of a web services client that uses Google.
So I tried it out. It's basically a two step process. From the context menu of an enterprise or web application choose New > Web Service Client. Specify the URL of...
A trip to Prague is ....
Exhuasting. From the time I left my house in Austin, TX until I checked into my hotel in Prague twenty-one hours elapsed. And since I have never learned how to sleep on airplanes, I ended up being awake for thirty-one hours straight. On top of that, I'm not getting much sleep while I'm here.
Exhilarating. The purpose of my trip is to attend meetings where we discuss...
As a companion event to JavaOne, NetBeans Day will take place the day before JavaOne starts. But you don't have to be attending JavaOne in order to attend NetBeans Day. If you happen to be in the area please join us; you can kick the tires on the latest NetBeans release, see some presentations by industry luminaries, and meet the NetBeans team.
The best part? It's free.
Free information,...
NASA announced the other day that Java PathFinder was being open sourced. I enjoy using code analysis tools but have not had a chance to play with PathFinder yet. But it certainly *looks* cool.
Grabbing the source and then building with NetBeans is pretty straightforward. My colleague Charlie Hunt has written an excellent article that describes the process.
