A selection of news highlights, current newsletters and featured articles from netbeans.org, opensource IDE and application backplane http://netbeans.org/index.html en webmaster@netbeans.org (NetBeans webmaster) http://netbeans.org/images_www/v5/nb-logo.gif http://netbeans.org/index.html 110 30 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:18:41 +0200 https://blogs.oracle.com/nbpodcast/entry/netbeans_podcast_60 Get the scoop on new development work in Groovy support. Find out why NetBeans is the preferred IDE for the technical publishing house Murach & Associates. And how did Jarda Tulach and the Netbinox project fare at OSGiCon? Tune in for all this and catch up on other NetBeans news. http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/netbeans-javaone-tokyo Masaki Katakai, tech lead of the NetBeans Globalization team, reports on developers' interests and questions about the NetBeans IDE at JavaOne Tokyo. http://netbeans.dzone.com/nb-in-vietnamese Micheal Nguyen, a Vietnamese developer, on why and how he launched an open-source project to translate the NetBeans IDE for Vietnamese-speaking developers. http://netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1556 NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 is an update to NetBeans IDE 7.1 and NetBeans IDE 7.1.1, and contains the following highlights: Java SE 7u4 Support, which includes the first Oracle JDK release for Mac OS X JavaFX 2.1 Support (Bundled with the JDK. Windows and Mac only.) Ant upgrade to version 1.8.3 Integration of recent patches Minor performance improvements There are two download options: Download and install NetBeans IDE 7.1.2. OR To get the patches only: Launch your current installation of NetBeans IDE 7.1 or NetBeans IDE 7.1.1, and an update alert will appear. Click the notification box to install the updates. OR to perform the update manually, select Tools-->Plugins-->Reload Catalog (Updates Tab). NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Share your thoughts and stay informed about NetBeans by following the NetBeans team on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, and by subscribing to the NetBeans mailing lists and weekly newsletter. http://netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1555 Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, certain services on NetBeans.org will be unavailable from Friday, April 27th until Monday, April 30th. The affected services are: NetBeans Mailing Lists, NetBeans Wiki, the Mercurial repository, Bugzilla, and all NetBeans.org subdomains (E.g.: edu.netbeans.org, platform.netbeans.org, "subdomain".netbeans.org, etc). NetBeans IDE downloads will be available; NetBeans Plugin Portal, NetBeans Forums, and NetBeans.org website content will also be accessible. Outage start: Friday, April 27th at 12:00 PST (Check your time zone) Outage end: Monday, April 30th at 12:00 PST (Check your time zone) Thank you in advance for your patience. The NetBeans Team. http://netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1554 Hello NetBeans Users! The NetBeans team wants your feedback about your experience using NetBeans IDE 7.1 or its update release, NetBeans IDE 7.1.1. Are you getting the best coding experience when using NetBeans IDE 7.1 or NetBeans IDE 7.1.1? Are there features or enhancements the NetBeans team should consider in future releases? Tell us in this short survey. It should only take about 3-5 minutes to complete. Your responses will let us know if we're on target with our primary goal, which is to give you the best IDE for your programming needs. Many thanks. The NetBeans Team http://netbeans.dzone.com/nb-hierarchical-web-services Based on the popular NetBeans E-Commerce tutorial series, this tutorial builds a client application which has a Web Service of its own which uses the Web Services published by the retail application. http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/javame/svgtouch-screencast.html This screencast demonstrates how to develop an application that works on most Java ME-based touch screen devices using scalable vector graphics (SVG) user interface widgets in the NetBeans IDE. http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:24:527198586413499::NO::P24_CONTENT_ID,P24_PREV_PAGE:5981,1 This tutorial demonstrates using a JLayer component in Java Swing applications. http://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2012-04-24.html http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/press-release/microchips-mplab-x-ide-wins-2.html http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2012/01/comparing-heap-dumps-with-netbeans-71.html http://technology.amis.nl/blog/14890/netbeans-7-1-javafx-2-0-support-refactoring-enhancements-and-great-maven-3-integration