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Here you'll find all videos and demos which let you to discover features of NetBeans IDE including the Java Editor and Profiler, JavaScript, Grovy, PHP and Ruby support, the GUI Builder and the NetBeans Platform APIs. Many of the videos that were made for version 6.0/6.1 also work in version 6.5 of NetBeans IDE.

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Watch the Guided Video Tour of NetBeans IDE to learn what's new in the latest release, NetBeans IDE 6.5.


Recent Demos

Time: 4:31
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May 28, 2009

Working with Issue Tracking in NetBeans IDE 6.7

By Ken Ganfield

You can find, view, update and report issues to a registered issue tracker within the NetBeans IDE. The screencast also shows how to apply a patch that is attached to an issue and how to update an issue as part of the process of committing a file to the remote repository.

 

Time: 4:55
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May 28, 2009

Creating a Kenai Project in NetBeans IDE 6.7

By Ken Ganfield

When you are a member of a project, you have access to a development infrastructure that includes source code hosting services, issue tracking and various communication channels to help developers stay connected. Many of the services provided by Kenai are fully integrated and accessible directly from the NetBeans IDE.

Time: 3:05
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May 27, 2009

Opening a Kenai Project in NetBeans IDE 6.7

By Ken Ganfield

This screencast demonstrates how to use NetBeans IDE 6.7 to retrieve the sources of a project that is hosted on Kenai and open the project in the IDE. You can retrieve the sources from the project's remote repository directly in the IDE. The screencast also demonstrates how to join a project.

 

Time: 10:21
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May 16, 2009

Free NetBeans Platform Crash Course

By Geertjan Wielenga (blog)

To celebrate Heiko's "The Definitive Guide to NetBeans Platform", here's a crash course into the world of the NetBeans Platform. Zero NetBeans Platform knowledge is assumed. You'll learn the basic concepts, the motivations behind using the NetBeans Platform, and details about the architectureof NetBeans Platform applications.

Archives

NetBeans IDE 6.7


 
 CRUD Application on the NetBeans Platform (Part 1)
1st part of a 2-part series that integrates a MySQL database into a NetBeans Platform application via EclipseLink. The Nodes API and the Explorer & Property Sheet API are used to display the data in a TopComponent class, which embeds a new window into the application. Synchronization with the Properties window is also shown.

Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
March 17, 2009
Time: 20:21

 Twitter Search in PHP
A quick intro to creating a PHP application that searches Twitter and displays its results in a Yahoo UI chart.

J. Bolter
March 16, 2009
Time: 11:37

NetBeans IDE 6.5


 
 Teach Yourself JavaFX - Sample Projects in the Netbeans IDE
The NetBeans IDE 6.5 for JavaFX comes with ready-to-build JavaFX sample projects included. You can immediately build and run these projects in the NetBeans IDE to see what the sample does. In these video tutorials we will have a look at the source code of various sample projects and learn how the demonstrated features are implemented.

Ruth Kusterer (Ruth's blog)
March 11, 2009
Time: 01:00-3:00

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 9)
The focus of this screencast is an introduction to the Visual Library API, building on top of Part 8, which created a scenario where it makes sense to use the Visual Library API: the user will be able to drag items from a Palette and, when the item is dropped, a widget is created. Some features are added to the widget, such as a MoveAction, and to the scene, such as a ZoomAction.

Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
February 25, 2009
Time: 18:05

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 8)
Part 8 begins with a recap of the previous parts, followed by a demo where we prepare ourselves for the next screencast, which will focus on the Visual Library API. To get to a point where we can meaningfully use that API, we construct two layers of nodes which we display in a Palette. Then we add drag and drop behavior so that the palette components can be dragged into the window with which it is associated.

Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
February 24, 2009
Time: 36:10

 Creating Mobile Games in NetBeans
This screencast will show you how to create a Java ME game using the NetBeans Mobile Game Builder and focuses on how to use the game designer to create the visual components of a game such as sprites and tiled layers. This demonstration is based on Lukas Hasik's Hands on lab that was given at JavaOne.

Lukas Hasik and Brad Schmidt (Lukas's blog)
February 20, 2009
Time: 10:21

 Getting started with Blu-ray Disc Java Applications
Chihiro Saito, a Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) developer for Sun Microsystems, shows how you can use a pre-packaged BD-J application to run in a PC player or a consumer Blu-ray player. The source files are located at http://hdcookbook.dev.java.net.

Chihiro Saito
Februar 13, 2009
Time: 07:32

 Dummy's Guide to Wicket
An introduction to the Wicket framework, focusing on its distinguishing features, how to get started, and ending with a demo showing how to use it in NetBeans IDE.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
Januar 29, 2009
Time: 22:33

 JavaFX MediaPlayer
How to use NetBeans IDE 6.5 to create a media player in JavaFX.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
December 11, 2008
Download Time: 04:39

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 7)
The 2nd part of the revision, this time covering the FileSystem API, the Nodes API, and the Explorer & Property Sheet API. You must have watched at least part 4 and part 5 before watching this screencast, because this screencast revises those.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
November 30, 2008
Time: 18:17

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 6)
A summary of the previous sections of this screencast series, applied to an actual application that we port step by step to the NetBeans Platform. At the end, we have a brand new NetBeans Platform application consisting of three modules.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
November 21, 2008
Time: 21:24

 Working with the JavaScript Debugger in NetBeans IDE 6.5
The JavaScript debugger provides you with a set of tools that aid in the process of inspecting and editing JavaScript code. You can use the debugger to identify errors, or step through execution and explore the state of your application at any given moment. This demo explores some of the debugger features by examining a project that uses a fisheye widget.

By Troy Giunipero
November 19, 2008
Download Time: 07:49

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 5)
Nodes API and Explorer & Property Sheet API, the next part of this series.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
November 18, 2008
Time: 21:01

 Introduction to NetBeans IDE 6.5
This screencast is to show new Java developers NetBeans IDE editor features and give a short introduction on how to edit, compile and run Java programs and use the productivity features in NetBeans IDE.

By Sridhar Reddy
November 11, 2008
Time: 14:21

 Demo of the PHP Support in NetBeans 6.5 - Part II
This is the second part of the demo of the PHP distribution of NetBeans IDE 6.5. This part is about basic editor features.

By Petr Pisl (NetBeans PHP blog
November 20, 2008
Time: 6:16

 Demo of the PHP support in NetBeans 6.5 - Part I
In the first part of a new screencast series focused on NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP, you will learn about PHP project and run configurations.

By Petr Pisl (NetBeans PHP blog)
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November 13, 2008
Time: 07:43

 Understanding the JavaFX Scene Graph
What is the JavaFX Scene Graph and how is it used? Learn more from this sample JavaFX application created in NetBeans IDE 6.5 for JavaFX.

November 20, 2008
Time: 6:16

 RESTful Web Services Pet Catalog
This is a screencast about an example Pet Store Catalog application which shows how to expose a Catalog as a RESTful Web Service for remote client applications, and shows a Dojo client which gets and displays the Web Service responses in a dynamic Ajax table (Dojo grid).

By Carol McDonald (Carol's blog)
November 11, 2008
Time: 08:46

 Building a Flickr slideshow with PHP
This demo shows off the new PHP features of NetBeans IDE 6.5 by walking through building a simple application to access Flickr. You will then see how to turn your Flickr images into a simple slideshow using JavaScript and CSS.

By Justin Bolter
November 11, 2008
Time: 13:59

 Working with JavaScript Toolkits in NetBeans IDE 6.5
A demonstration on how to work with JavaScript toolkits in the IDE. The screencast is divided into two parts. The first part shows how to add a toolkit that is registered with the IDE to a project; the second part shows how to register a new toolkit with the IDE.

By Troy Giunipero
November 10, 2008
Time: 08:55

 Simple Web Application using NetBeans 6.5 IDE and GlassFish v3 Prelude
This screencast shows how you can create a simple Web application using JSP and Servlets in NetBeans IDE, deploy it directly on GlassFish v3 and then debug it. GlassFish v3 Prelude contains a Java EE 5-based web stack. The NetBeans IDE's comprehensive tooling allows you to easily develop Web applications and deploy directly on GlassFish v3 Prelude. The rapid deployment feature of GlassFish allows to redeploy applications without losing session state. Using the NetBeans IDE's deploy-on-save feature, the complete development cycle is reduced to edit-save-refresh. Get the most out of GlassFish with Sun's enterprise-class support and services.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
November 10, 2008
Time: 9:04

 Develop/Run/Debug Rails application using NetBeans IDE and GlassFish v3 Prelude
This screencast shows how you can create a simple Rails application using NetBeans IDE, deploy it directly on GlassFish v3 and then debug it. GlassFish v3 Prelude allows Rails applications to be deployed natively using JRuby and without the need of any WAR packaging or Servlet container. An integrated NetBeans tooling provides a comprehensive development and deployment platform for all your Rails applications. Get the most out of GlassFish with Sun's enterprise-class support and services.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
November 07, 2008
Time: 8:14

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 4)
In part 4 of this series, the NetBeans FileSystem API is discussed, after a general discussion about file systems and why it could be a very useful feature to have in your own desktop application.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
November 07, 2008
Time: 31:36

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 3)
Part 1 dealt with the NetBeans runtime container, part 2 introduced you to the Lookup API, and now in part 3 you see the Window System API in action. The screencast starts with an overview of the previous screencasts, then discusses what a window system is, and then shows you the main API classes in common scenarios.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
November 04, 2008
Time: 47:43

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 2)
In Part 1 of the 'Top 10 NetBeans API series', we looked at the problem statement, the runtime container, and the Module System API. In Part 2, we look at the Lookup API and we learn how it is similar and different to the JDK 6 ServiceLoader class. We also see some demos!

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
October 24, 2008
Time: 30:06

 Top 10 NetBeans APIs (Part 1)
Part 1 of a series of screencasts of the NetBeans Platform APIs. Watch this if you are new to the NetBeans APIs or want to understand how an application like the NetBeans IDE works. This part focuses on the typical Swing development problems that the NetBeans Platform solves, the runtime container, and the Module System API.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
October 23, 2008
Time: 13:28

 Groovy & Grails #3: Groovy Makes Code Generation Simple
Groovy's tight and simple syntax can let you replace all of the wizards in the IDE with a few scripts that produce the same output. In this screencast, you learn about one of the samples that comes with NetBeans IDE, for creating a complete source structure for a NetBeans module project. At the same time, you learn about some of Groovy's cool features and you also see the Groovy editor in action.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
October 29, 2008
Time: 6:22

 Groovy & Grails #2: How To Do Ajax With Grails
Ajax is a hot topic, allowing for more interactivity with the end user. Grails is also hot: easy to get started; simple to structure your application; a child's play to maintain it. But how do the two work together? Here partial page refresh via the 'prototype' tag library in Grails is demonstrated in the context of NetBeans IDE 6.5 RC.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
October 29, 2008
Time: 5:27

 Groovy & Grails #1: Groovy Makes Java Better
The question is often asked: Can Groovy and Java interact? In this video, we'll see how this is done in NetBeans.

By Geertjan Wielenga (Geertjan's blog)
October 27, 2008
Time: 2:00

 NetBeans 6.5: Database Support Improvements
This screencast demonstrates enhancements to the database support in NetBeans IDE 6.5. These include support for the Sakila database, improved support for MySQL, improvements to the SQL Editor, SQL code completion, displaying multiple rowsets, and SQL history.

By Andrei Badea
October 23, 2008
Time: 5:49

 Using JPA Support with EclipseLink in the NetBeans IDE
A video tutorial on how to handle Java Persistence API support using EclipseLink in the NetBeans IDE. The demonstration is divided into two parts; the first shows how to make use of EclipseLink support using editor hints and refactoring. The second part describes how to create entity classes from a database.

By Troy Giunipero
October 01, 2008
Time: 12:23

 Class Property Variables - NetBeans IDE for PHP
The demo mainly shows how NetBeans PHP handles class property variables, but you can also see other editor features and how to find a declaration.

By Petr Pisl (NetBeans PHP blog)
September 22, 2008
Time: 7:26

 Compile on Save in the NetBeans IDE
This screencast demonstrates the Compile on Save feature that has been introduced in NetBeans IDE 6.5. This feature saves you time by enabling you to make incremental changes to your application and test run those changes without rebuilding and redeploying the whole application.

By John Jullion-Ceccarelli
August 19, 2008
Time: 04:25

 Creating a WordPress PHP Plugin with NetBeans IDE 6.5
Petr Pisl shows how to set up the WordPress sources as a NetBeans project. He then shows how to write a simple plugin for WordPress. The plugin will look through content of displayed blog entries to replace the word "NetBeans" with a link to the NetBeans.org site.

By Petr Pisl (NetBeans PHP blog)
August 18, 2008
Time: 8:10

 Nandini Ramani Introduces the JavaFX Preview SDK
Engineering Director Nandini Ramani introduces JavaFX Preview SDK and shows how to use NetBeans IDE 6.1 With JavaFX to run samples and create an application.

By Nandini Ramani
August 05, 2008
Time: 12:41

 Hibernate Demo for NetBeans IDE 6.1 and 6.5
Check out the NetBeans Hibernate support in this screencast. We go through creating POJOs, mapping the POJOs to the database using Hibernate mapping files, then displaying the data in a JSF web application created with Visual Web designer.

By John Jullion-Ceccarelli
July 31, 2008
Time: 13:29

NetBeans IDE 6.1 and 6.0


 
 Getting started with OpenLaszlo and NetBeans IDE
OpenLaszlo is a Flash-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) web framework. Sotohiro Terashima's screencast shows you how to install the OpenLaszlo Plugin and create a new OpenLaszlo-based web application. The plugin works with the NetBeans IDE version 5.5.1, 6.0 or 6.1 and can be downloaded from the OpenLaszlo for NetBeans IDE homepage.

By Sotohiro Terashima (project homepage)
July 30, 2008
Time: 6:07
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 iReport from JasperSoft
Giulio Toffoli, iReport Architect and Project Founder, leads us through a demonstration of how to build a report using NetBeans 6 and the iReport plugin. The iReport wizard allows you to rapidly create reports from a variety of different data sources and provides the ability to customize when needed.

By Kuldip Oberoi (Kuldip's blog)
June 04, 2008
Time: 11:09
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 Getting Started with GlassFish v3 TP2
This screencast shows how to get started with GlassFish v3 TP2 using NetBeans IDE 6.1. The screencast shows how to download and install GlassFish v3 TP2, install the new GlassFish integration plug-ins, develop and deploy a simple web application with JSP and Servlets on the newly installed GlassFish.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
May 04, 2008
Time: 6:57
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 Intland Software and CodeBeamer
Learn how CodeBeamer, Intland Software's premier technology, is changing the way distributed teams work together. Developers working in different locations worldwide can now effectively work and communicate together on a higher development level. Based on Java technology, codeBeamer is fully integrated with NetBeans.

By Kuldip Oberoi (Kuldip's blog)
April 13, 2008
Time: 7:52

 The New JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1
NetBeans IDE 6.1 contains a completely new JavaScript editor which provides many advanced editing capabilities such as intelligent code completion, mark occurences, instant rename, on-fly analysis of JavaScript libraries, support for many Ajax frameworks and more.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
April 28, 2008
Time: 5:39
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 Accessing Web Services from a Visual Web Application
Building web applications with the IDE's visual tools is easier in version 6.0. Accessing web services is also easier. This brief demo shows how to build a web application that uses a web service.

By Gregg Sporar (Gregg's blog)
March 26, 2008
Time: 4:25
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 Demo of NetBeans IDE & MySQL with Roman Strobl
MySQL, the popular open-source database, is now part of Sun's software portfolio. In a new screencast from NetBeans technology evangelist Roman Strobl, get a quick start to developing database driven applications with the NetBeans IDE using the MySQL database server. The demo goes through the steps of connecting to a database from NetBeans, using the MySQL editor to create tables, and exposing the tables in a desktop application and the data as web services.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
March 03, 2008
Time: 07:10

 Nick Sieger Uses RSpec with the NetBeans Ruby Support
Nick Sieger demonstrates behavior driven development using RSpec in the NetBeans Ruby support. He tests the Ruby Weblog application by using the Red/Green refactor cycle of running, modifying, saving, and running tests.

By Cindy Church, Nick Sieger (Nicks's blog)
February 08, 2008
Time: 10:53
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 Live Code Templates in the NetBeans IDE 6.0 Ruby Editor
Tor Norbye demos Live Code Templates in the NetBeans Ruby Editor.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
December 02, 2007
Time: 2:29
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 99 Second Demos: Creating a Java Project
This introductory video illustrates how to create a Standard Java project with NetBeans IDE 6.0.

By Sherry Barkodar (Sherry's blog)
December 01, 2007
Time: 0:48

 99 Second Demos: Creating a Ruby on Rails Weblog
This video illustrates how to use Netbeans IDE 6.0's Ruby on Rails features to create a simple Weblog application in about a minute.

By Sherry Barkodar (Sherry's blog)
December 01, 2007
Time: 1:57

 Ruby Unit Testing
Tor Norbye demonstrates writing and running unit tests using the NetBeans Ruby Support in this 3-minute screencast.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
November 20, 2007
Time: 3:00
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 CRUD using jMaki and JPA
Arun Gupta creates a simple jMaki application that performs CRUD operations on a Data Table widget. It uses Java Persistence API (JPA) to connect to the database and the application is deployed on GlassFish.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
November 13, 2007
Time: 11:45

 Creating Ruby on Rails Weblog
Tor Norbye uses the NetBeans IDE 6.0 Ruby on Rails Support to create a classic Ruby Weblog in less than 9 minutes.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
November 6, 2007
Time: 9:04
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 NetBeans Ruby Debugger
Roman Strobl demonstrates the NetBeans Ruby Debugger features such as adding breakpoints, running tests, analyzing local variables, exploring call stacks, and viewing watches.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
October 2, 2007
Time: 4:38
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 Secure and Reliable Web Service Using Metro/GlassFish
This screencast shows how a Secure and Reliable Web service can be easily developed using NetBeans 6 and deployed on Metro/GlassFish. Find more information in Arun's blog.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
October 03, 2007
Time: 13:03

 Hints and Quick Fixes in the Ruby Editor
Tor Norbye demonstrates hints and quick fixes in the NetBeans Ruby Editor.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
September 10, 2007
Time: 3:21
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 NetBeans Ruby Editor Code Completion
What does ctrl-space do? Ruby developer Tor Norbye shows code completion features of the NetBeans Ruby Editor.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
September 10, 2007
Time: 2:02

 YouTube: NetBeans REST Web Services, Building and Deploying (Part 1)
Developer Rico Cruz shows how to use NetBeans to create RESTful web services using persistence entity classes and how to compose RESTful web service resources using well-known web services, such as Google Map.

By Rico Cruz
September 5, 2007
Time: 4:17

 YouTube: NetBeans REST Testing and Invoking REST Resources (Part 2)
NetBeans REST Web Service test client provides URI navigation between related resources and invocation of resource interface methods.

By Rico Cruz
September 5, 2007
Time: 4:01

 Integration of Ruby and Java Development
Tor Norbye uses NetBeans IDE 6.0 to integrate Java desktop CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) functionality with a Ruby on Rails application. He highlights the code completion and live templates features of the Java and Ruby editors, the Rails code generator, and the IDE's JUnit module.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
August 31, 2007
Time: 8:58

 Sun Blogs: First JRuby App in GlassFish
This screencast shows how a JRuby application can be developed and deployed using NetBeans Ruby IDE. Find more information in Arun's blog.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
August 8, 2007
Time: 14:30

 Sun Blogs: jMaki on Rails for Dummies
This screencast By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog) shows how a jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget can be used to pull data from MySQL database using ActiveRecord in a Rails application. This is a screencast of the Jmaki on Rails for Dummies tutorial that uses NetBeans IDE 6.0 (Milestone 9) and the jMaki plug-in.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
September 5, 2007
Time: 14:08

 NetBeans Visual Library
In this video tutorial, Roumen creates an application with graph-oriented content using the visual library.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
May 2007
Time: 18:36
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 NetBeans IDE 6.0 GlassFish Integration
XML Multiview editor for deployment descriptor editing, per-instance options, profiler integration, shared installation registration, usage profile, JDBC driver deployment, resource persistence, directory deployment of enterprise application. More details...

By Vince Kraemer (Vince's blog)
May 2007
Time: 3:00

 Getting Started with NetBeans IDE 6.0 - Preview
Learn how to find news and samples on the welcome screen and create new projects. Use templates, error marks, and code completion in the editor. The preview of NetBeans IDE 6.0 also covers debugging, refactoring, and unit testing.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
May 2007
Time: 6:29

 Ruby Editing in NetBeans IDE 6.0 - Preview
This demo covers smart code completion including regular expression completion, Ruby documentation window (rdoc), syntax coloring, class navigation, hyperlinking, code formating, refactoring, switching between Ruby/JRuby.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
March 2007
Time: 4:55

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