NetBeans™ IDE Field Guide

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