Java Reference
In-Depth Information
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NetBeans comes with a built-in version of Tomcat for serving up Web pages
and JSP and Java Servlets. It's very handy for developing and testing on your
desktop. We'll look at that more in Part IV of this topic.
In the NetBeans help file, you'll find this intriguing note:
Using Scripting Languages in NetBeans: NetBeans provides you with a
scripting feature that lets you use scripts to operate the IDE remotely or
from the Scripting Console or by using a scripting file. You can use the
scripting languages provided in the Scripting Console, or you can create a
scripting class through the New From Template wizard. The following
scripting languages are provided with NetBeans: DynamicJava, BeanShell,
and JPython. For information on the scripting languages provided, see
DynamicJava at
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/djava/
, BeanShell at
http://www.beanshell.org/
, JPython at
http://www.jpython.org/
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We barely got you into Eclipse. Eclipse supports CVS (check out the
Team
submenu). Eclipse provides code refactoring features that allow you to
rename classes and methods with automatic update of all affected source.
Eclipse provides a feature to “externalize” strings (which takes all string con-
stants out of a module and makes them into properties references, allowing for
easy internationalization). It is a powerful Java development platform.
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NetBeans.
NetBeans has some very extensive online help. There are also
some very good Web-based documents, including the user guide which can be
found at
http://usersguide.netbeans.org/
. Of particular value is the
Getting Work Done guide at
http://usersguide.netbeans.org/gwd/
which describes itself as “a more detailed introduction to the IDE than available
in the Getting Started tutorial.”
Support for NetBeans, as with many other Open Source projects, happens
online. There is no toll-free number to call. Instead you subscribe to an e-mail
list; all messages sent to the list are then forwarded to everyone on the list.
Anyone can respond, and you are encouraged to respond too, to share what
you know with others. The NetBeans developers are often the ones who answer
