NetBeans Community Docs Spotlight - Siegfried Bolz

Hello, Community!

Its time to put Spotlight on yet another contributor, whose exploration, led him to contribute docs to the community! This time we head towards Munich, Germany!

I'm talking about Siegfried Bolz, who has done two contributions;

1. Create reverse Ajax Web-Applications with DWR, GlassFish and NetBeans 6.1
2. Creating SOAP Web Services with NetBeans 6.0

We asked him some questions, and here's what he has to say;

What do you do?

I am working as a Java Software Developer for a mortgage financing company and I am the only one there, who is using NetBeans, all other developers are using Eclipse. :-( So i am trying to persuade them all. ;-)

When did you first start using NetBeans?

That was in spring 2007, i had to develop some Web Services with JAX-WS and was searching the Web for some tutorials with Eclipse. Luckily, i found some for NetBeans 5.5 . This was the beginning for me, to use NetBeans. First i missed some features from Eclipse like the cool Quick fixes, but when NetBeans v6.0 was released, this gap was closed.

What do you like best about NetBeans?

Hmmm, there are many things but my favourite feature is the great Web Service support. Unlike other IDE's, NetBeans is the first (and only?) one which supports JAX-WS and RESTful, and not only AXIS. In combination with GlassFish v2, it is very very easy to create reliable, secure Web Services. Many thanks to the NetBeans und GlassFish developer teams!

Thank you Siegfried for contributing!

Hello, NetBeans Community!

Hi,

I am Varun Nischal, and for the past 6 months have been contributing to the NetBeans Community, in one way, or the other. Its been a roller-coaster ride, and I really enjoyed being a part of it!

I have been programming since my schooling and never lost the passion for it, when I entered college. Since then, I have learnt C, C++, C# and Java. To be honest, I really love coding in C++ and Java. I have a passion for it.

Indeed, whatever I ever had interest in, I was able to develop passion for it, and being an open-source enthusiast, I developed passion for NetBeans! This is the reason, why I'm blogging here, because my passion has led me to becoming the next NetBeans Community Docs Contribution Coordinator. Its a great feeling which can't be expressed simply in words!

Apart from that, I love sketching, blogging and biking as well! Now, you can see me blogging at three blogs;

1. NetBeans Guru - http://nbguru.wordpress.com/
2. prOgramming bOnds - http://bondprogrammers.blogspot.com/
3. This blog itself...
   

Thanks, everyone!

Regards,
Varun Nischal
NetBeans Community Docs Contribution Coordinator
[Email | nvarun@NetBeans.org]

DOM tree scanner in NetBeans 6.1 Beta

NetBeans 6.1 Beta comes with a DOM tree scanner which can generate Java classes for scanning the DOM tree of your XML file from the corresponding DTD file.


In this NetBeans Community Docs contribution, the usage of DOM Tree Scanner- DOM tree scanner in NetBeans 6.1 Betahas been demonstrated.

Creating Image Bean using NetBeans 6.1 Beta

Creating Image Bean Using NetBeans 6.1is a new contribution to the NetBeans Community Docs by Jay Mahadeokar



This doc demonstrates the Java Beans functionalities that has been re-introduced in NetBeans 6.1 Beta. After completing this doc, you will have a re-usable Image Bean to be used in your Java GUI applications.

Go and check it out!

NB Community Docs in Russia

Hi all,
I just got back from St. Petersburg, Russia, where I attended Sun Tech Days. On the last day (NetBeans Day), I was able to give a short presentation on NetBeans Community Docs. I tried to cover as much as I could in the short time allotted to me. I hope to be doing more presentations

The presentation went well, and I hope that some contributions from Russia will trickle in soon. We've really grown as a program, and a big thanks goes out to you all!

See you soon!

--James

Opening Images using Java Advanced Imaging API

The latest contribution to the NetBeans Community Docs is a doc on a small module project that will demonstrate the usage of Java Advanced Imaging API to open Images within NetBeans.

Here is the link to the doc: http://wiki.netbeans.org/OpenImagesUsingJAI

This is Jay's 2nd successive contribution to the NetBeans Community Docs.

How about contributing one of your own? Its easy- visit http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs for more details!

Record Management System Tutorial

The NetBeans Community Docs contribution titled "RMS Tutorial" introduces you to the basic of The Record Management System (RMS) in J2ME

In the tutorial, you will design a small Expenses utility to better illustrate the concepts :


Thanks Jay Mahadeokar for the great tutorial!