A selection of news highlights, current newsletters and featured articles from netbeans.org, opensource IDE and application backplane http://www.netbeans.org/index.html en webmaster@netbeans.org (NetBeans webmaster) http://www.netbeans.org/images/v5/nb-logo.gif http://www.netbeans.org/index.html 110 30 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:15:13 +0200 http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/29/netbeans_six_point_one/ Reg Developer's Pan Pantziarka reviews NetBeans IDE 6.1 and likes the noticeable and welcome additions. He says "In all, then, this is a release that keeps up the NetBeans momentum." http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2008/netbeans-day-report.html Report from the NetBeans Software Day at the 2008 CommunityOne Conference in San Francisco. http://blogs.sun.com/javaone2008/entry/netbeans_talk_goes_into_second Read about the talk Roman Strobl gave in Second Life on the great features in the NetBeans IDE, what cool features are coming, and what new developers should learn about the Java platform. http://www.icefaces.org/ ICEsoft Technologies, Inc., is a leading provider of standards-compliant, Ajax-based solutions for developing and deploying Java EE, rich Internet applications. ICEfaces is a leading open source Ajax framework for Java EE. ICEfaces provides plugins for the NetBeans IDE. http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1237 It's time again to elect a new NetBeans Governance Board. At this time we are asking for you to submit your nominations for the community members you wish to be considered for the NetBeans Governance Board. Send an e-mail with your nominations to the nbdiscuss@netbeans.org alias, or by using our contact form. nbdiscuss is the preferred channel as it is more open and the traffic is relatively low. The e-mail should contain the names of one or more people who you would like to nominate. Please tell us why you think they should be considered and a bit more about their NetBeans experience (e.g. their project page, blog). You can also nominate yourself. The DEADLINE for nominations is Monday, May 26th, midnight in the last time zone. Nomination & voting schedule: May 13 - May 26: Two-week nomination period May 27 - June 9: Two-week official polling period June 11, 2007: New Governance Board to be announced to community For more information about NetBeans Governance, and the election process, please see the following pages: NetBeans Board Elections, September 2008 NetBeans Governance Board Election Process The Current and Past Board Members http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1236 We would like to thank everyone who participated in the NetBeans IDE Blogging Contest! We had nearly 300 entries. The top 10 entrants will receive a $500 American Express gift certificate. The top 100 entrants will receive a NetBeans T-shirt. All winners will be contacted via email in the next two weeks (by May 23) to confirm mailing address. NetBeans IDE Blogging Contest Winners $500 American Express Gift Certificates Matthew Nuzum (English) Patrick Julien (English) Ding Liang (Chinese) Diego Silva (Spanish) Wagner Roberto dos Santos (Portuguese) Pat Coleman (English) James Eliyezar (English) Junji Takakura (Japanese) Jacek Laskowski (Polish) Joshua van Aalst (English) For links to the winning blogs, visit netbeans.org. Also, a big spin of the NetBeans cube to the judges who diligently read the blog entries. Thank you! http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1233 The Portal Pack 2.0 final version for NetBeans 6.1 is now available for download. It supports the new JSR 286 portlet specification.There are many new features which will help developers to write portlets quickly using JSR 286(Portlet 2.0) features. These plug-ins are also available at NetBeans 6.1 Auto-Update Center and with Java Tools Bundle Update 5 .  Some highlights of this release are : http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/nb_portlets/ This article shows you how to create portlets and provide dynamic content through drag-and-drop widgets in the NetBeans IDE. The example portlet in this article uses the jMaki Tabbed View widget, pulls in RSS feeds, and uses static links from the New to Java Programming Center. http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/icefaces-netbeans-crud-apps.html Learn to build CRUD applications with the latest release of the ICEfaces plugin (1.7) for the NetBeans IDE. http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2008-05-13.html http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-28.html http://netbeanside61.blogspot.com/2008/05/passion-for-blogging-about-netbeans-ide.html http://netbeanside61.blogspot.com/2008/05/netbeans-ide-blogging-contest-results.html http://cld.blog-city.com/javaone_2008__killer_java_app_and_how_to_build_one.htm