http://sun.systemnews.com NetBeans http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/102/2/NetBeans/16825 Protect your investment in existing JBuilder projects with the NetBeansTM IDE. Sun is offering a special workshop to help development teams migrate existing JBuilder projects to NetBeans. Sign up before November 30, 2006, to get a discount. Sun Developer Expert Assistance is also available at no charge but only until October 14, 2006. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/102/2/NetBeans/16827 To help developers migrate existing projects from JBuilder to NetBeansTM IDE, Sun has a migration guide available online. The guide covers what you need to know to start NetBeans IDE, import your JBuilder projects into NetBeans IDE and continue work on your projects. The Migration Guide lists steps and links for more information. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/100/3/NetBeans/16580 Tim Boudreau presents four new NetBeansTM tutorials on Selections: (1 & 2) Selection Management I and II, (3) NetBeans Nodes API and (4) NetBeans Property Editor. The tutorials are sequential, starting with the Selection Management part I. Each tutorial uses code from the previous one. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/100/3/NetBeans/16581 The latest plug-ins for the NetBeansTM IDE bring the best of Sun research to developers. These are: Jackpot, Real Time Java technology, Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and Grid Compute Server for NetBeans. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/99/4/NetBeans/16438 The NetBeansTM organization issued its first edition of NetBeans Magazine as part of the third annual NetBeans Software Day and the 2006 JavaOneSM Conference that took place in mid-May. This special first edition of NetBeans Magazine showcases a wide selection of IDE and extension features, from desktop and web development to plug-in module creation. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/97/5/NetBeans/16111 A Universal version of the NetBeansTM Enterprise Pack 5.5 is available as a free preview version, which includes NetBeans 5.5 IDE preview version and new tools for developing the latest set of time-saving features for Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) architects and programmers. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/97/5/NetBeans/16112 The day before the 2006 JavaOneSM Conference, the NetBeansTM Software Team will host its annual free companion event at the Argent Hotel near Moscone Center in San Francisco. This May 15th event will feature an array of JavaTM technology luminaries, including the Father of Java and Sun CTO of the Developer Products group James Gosling. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/97/5/NetBeans/16114 A preview version of the NetBeansTM C/C++ Development Pack has been released, allowing developers to edit, compile and build C and C++ applications on multiple operating systems, including the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux and Windows. This plug-in is supported in NetBeans 5.0 and preview versions of NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/96/2/NetBeans/15900 NetBeansTM Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 5.0 has been released and is available to be downloaded free from netbeans.org. This latest version of the JavaTM technology-based open source software tool provides comprehensive support for building JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition (JavaTM SE), JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition (JavaTM EE) and JavaTM Platform, Micro Edition (JavaTM ME) applications. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/96/2/NetBeans/15901 For the first time, technical support for NetBeansTM 5.0 will now be available through the Expert Assistance for Developers - a new Sun Developer Network Program currently in beta mode. Through this program, a developer can get assistance for Sun developer tools, the JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition (JavaTM SE) and the NetBeans IDE.