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Updated on Dec 30, 2008

With the release of 20th edition,
the series of weekly newsletters comes to end..

NBCD Weekly Newsletters

Monday, 18th August- The day, we launched a unique blog series of newsletters, featuring content concerned with the happenings within the NetBeans Community Docs Program.

• Spotlight of the Week
• Latest Docs
• Contributions within that week
  
• Special News
• and few more...

Early October 2008,

It got started in English, however Kristian Rink, NBCD Evangelist, also the NetBeans Dream Team Member posted first ever German translation of our weekly newsletters.

During NetBeans B'day Bash,

Aristides Villarreal Bravo, NBCD Evangelist, one of the founding members and still a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, posted first ever Spanish translation of our weekly newsletters.

Figure: Look on the right-panel of this blog for the above widget and then,
click on "/Weekly" for English feeds, and "German", "Spanish" for Translated feeds..

Email Subscriptions..

You can subscribe these feeds through email as well, for English (en_US) and for German (de_DE) or Spanish (es_ES). Those who have already subscribed, should consider staying with subscription for sometime and wait for further announcements.

Its Not Over Yet..

We would be releasing Monthly Newsletters from January 2009 onwards. Read the complete story in the latest edition of weekly newsletter. Necessary details would be posted on the blog, twitter and mailing list.

Happy NetBeaning!

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #8 (German)

Spotlight der Woche

Leider haben wir auch in dieser Woche keinen Kandidaten zur Vorstellung in unserem Spotlight; wenn Du der Meinung bist, Du solltest dort vorgestellt werden, dann mach mit, füge Deinen Beitrag ein und vielleicht bringt dieser auch Dich ins Spotlight des Community Docs - Programmes!

Für eine Übersicht über all jene, die bislang im Spotlight dieses Blogs standen:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/commdocs-spotlights

September - 16 neue Dokumentationsbeiträge

Neueste Dokumentation

Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

30. September | Usando Cube°n

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

29. September | Build Cocoon Application using Maven 2 in NetBeans

Tips und Tricks

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

29. September | Use External Maven to work with Cocoon 2.2

29. September | Using JTattoo L&F with NetBeans

28. September | Shutdown Jetty started by Maven in NetBeans

Besondere Neuigkeiten

Helden...
Verweisend auf etwas, worauf wir durchaus stolz sein dürfen - wir sehen Euch als unsere Helden.

Updates im Programm...
Amit Kumar Saha, schrieb kürzlich über 2 wichtige Ankündigungen, zum ersten über die Tatsache, daß dieses Blog demnächst mehrsprachig wird und, zum zweiten, über aktuelle Updates im Eclipse To NetBeans - Dokumentations-Unterprojekt.

Aktivster Autor...
Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

Diese Ausgabe wurde bearbeitet von:
Kristian Rink

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Ebenfalls verfügbar: E-Mail - Abonnements des Weekly Newsletter - jetzt bestellen!
Vielen Dank!

Four Developer FAQs

Tom Wheeler was featured in our Weekly Newsletter #5, so lets take a quick look at what all he contributed during that time.

How can I suppress Unexpected Exception Dialog?

If your code generates an uncaught exception at runtime, NetBeans will display a dialog box which can show the details of that exception to the user. This is a welcome alternative to simply crashing the application, and provided you have written solid code, your user should never see this dialog anyway.

Read more...

How can I register services into the Lookup using the System Filesystem?

In short, you probably do not want to. The typical way of registering services is via META-INF/services registration: DevFaqLookupDefault. That method is easier to use and offers compatibility with non-platform applications via the Java Extension Mechanism.

Read more...

How can code in one module be notified when other modules are loaded or unloaded?

Let's begin by stating that you probably do not need to know when other modules are loaded or unloaded. The module system takes care of dependency management for you, so your module should never be loaded unless all of its stated dependencies are loaded too.

Read more...

I got a ClassNotFoundException or NoClassDefFoundError. How can I fix it?

The most likely explanation is that you have a problem in your dependencies. In order for a class in one module to reference a class/interface defined in another module, the following must be true:

1. The class/interface being referenced must be visible to the code using it, according to the normal Java visibility rules. This typically means that the class must be public, since package-private access across modules is impossible.
2. The package containing the class/interface must be exported (marked as providing an API visible to other modules).
3. The module containing the code which uses this class/interface must declare a dependency on the module which provides it.

Read more...

Thanks, Tom!

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #8

Spotlight of the Week

Yet again, we didn't have anyone to give spotlight to, if you feel you're the one that should get spotlight. Then, do join us, contribute and who knows your contributions could give you spotlight too!

Have a look at people who got spotlight on this blog-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/commdocs-spotlights

September Month- 16 Docs Contributed..

Latest docs

Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Sep 30 | Usando Cube°n

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

Sep 29 | Build Cocoon Application using Maven 2 in NetBeans

Tips and Tricks

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

Sep 29 | Use External Maven to work with Cocoon 2.2

Sep 29 | Using JTattoo L&F with NetBeans

Sep 28 | Shutdown Jetty started by Maven in NetBeans

Special News

HEROES..
Have a look at something you can be proud of, as we think you are our heroes.

Program Updates..
Amit Kumar Saha, recently blogged 2 important announcements, firstly on this blog becoming multilingual and secondly, updates from Eclipse To NetBeans sub-docs project.

Topmost Contributor..
Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

This edition was brought to you by;
Varun Nischal

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Heroes

Surprised!

Actually, you should be, as I am going to share something unique with you guys. So, why did I wrote "Heroes" as the title of this post?

Think...

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Let me tell you, I am not talking about the famous TV series- "HEROES", ok..

I am talking about our "HEROES", the contributors to this documentation project- NetBeans Community Docs!

NetBeans Community Docs Heroes
I believe that, "People who spend time in saving others time", should be considered as heroes. I am really not aware how the world defines a Hero? There would be various ways to define a hero.

However, for our documentation project, we couldn't think beyond contributors as our heroes. They do spend a lot of time exploring NetBeans IDE inside-out, and from this experience, they tend to share a lot of information with a community of users (distributed around the world), in the form of documentation, which would really help the users save a lot of time!

Today, we want to acknowledge all of them, we have created a document enlisting all the contributors of our project, firstly classified on the basis of years, and then months- in which they joined us.

Cheers!

General Eclipse Import Guide for NetBeans 6.5

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/import-eclipse.html provides some useful background information for Eclipse users to import their projects into NetBeans.

This document is a good read for the specific scenarios dealt in the documents at http://wiki.netbeans.org/EclipseToNetBeans which is a NetBeans Community Docs sub-project.

Previous updates on the project are available at http://amitksaha.blogspot.com/search/label/eclipse-to-netbeans

Catering to a wider audience

At the NetBeans Community Docs, we have seen a steady stream of flow of non-English docs over the past few months.

We now non-English speaking evangelists as well.

Today, we just take one step more to reach to the large non-English speaking NetBeans Community with a Google Translate Gadget (top right) on this blog. It will automatically allow you to view the page in any of the chosen language from the supported languages.

Have fun.