When I wrote about JavaOne, Day 2 I described a session called "Rich Applications with the J2EE platform and AJAX," which was done by Tor Norbye and Greg Murray. I mentioned that web app. development is not my forte, but I am always looking to learn new things. In particular, AJAX and Java Server Faces (JSF). My intent was to investigate this stuff weeks ago, but other events intervened....
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I've written about the new CVS support before. Since that entry was posted, several things have happened:
1. The new CVS support has moved into the default product configuration; you no longer have to download a plugin. Further, it has shown up in a Q build of NetBeans. What is a Q build? Several folks (Roumen, Tor, Lukas) have described this, but it is worth repeating. A Q build is a daily...
The NetBeans Profiler team continues to make progress. Milestone 8 is now available and it has some nice features. The most important one to me is the automatic exclusion of server code when profiling a web application. This is just the default - you can enable profiling of the server's code if you want. I'll write more on this feature after I've had some time to experiment with it. Full...
I continue to be amazed and humbled by the hard work and dedication of so many members of the NetBeans community.
This latest contribution, however, deserves special mention. Roumen Strobl has recorded a song about NetBeans. Check it out. Admittedly, while he may look sort of like Dave Matthews, he doesn't sound like him. But his singing voice is actually not bad (certainly better than mine...
My intent in writing last week's entry on Project Matisse was not to start a long-running debate. And I certainly don't want to start a flame war. So let me begin by thanking all those who bothered to add a comment; as mentioned I have no interest in a big debate, but I do like seeing comments. From what I can tell the comments came from well-intentioned people who are knowledgeable on the...
