Keegan: Netbeans Ide Field Guide _p2

The Only Complete Guide and Reference for NetBeans™ IDE 5.0

The award-winning NetBeans™ IDE eases all aspects of Java application development, incorporating a wide range of powerful features into one well-designed package. NetBeans IDE is consistently first in supporting the latest Java technologies for developing desktop, web, enterprise, and mobile applications.

NetBeans™ IDE Field Guide provides an introduction to the IDE and an extensive range of topics to help you with both everyday and advanced programming tasks, including

• Taking advantage of the Ant-based project system to create easily deployable projects
• Developing web applications with the built-in Apache Tomcat web server
• Constructing, assembling, and verifying large-scale Java EE applications
• Managing the Sun Java System Application Server through NetBeans IDE
• Developing mobile applications with the NetBeans Mobility Pack
• In this expanded second edition, you can also learn how to
• Build powerful and attractive desktop applications with the Matisse GUI Builder
• Profile your applications for performance issues
• Develop modules for NetBeans IDE and rich-client applications based on the NetBeans Platform
• Chat and share code with other developers using the NetBeans Collaboration Modules