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the most difficult questions, but lots of times answers come from others who
have just made it a little further up the learning curve than you.
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. You might want to create a special mail folder for the constant
stream of messages that you'll get from nbusers. We've seen about 15-20 mes-
sages per day, on average, over the past year. You don't need to read them all,
but as you scan the subject lines, see if there are ones that you might be able to
answer. If you want others to reply to your requests for help, it would only be
fair for you to do likewise. For a directory of the many e-mail lists related to
NetBeans, go to
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.
Eclipse.
The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse
by Sherry Shavor et al. (ISBN
0321159640, from Addison-Wesley Professional) is an excellent book on the
Eclipse platform, particularly from (as the title suggests) the Java developer's
point of view. Eclipse is, however, more than just Java. It is designed to be an
“IDE Factory,” providing a framework for almost any task that involves an
edit/compile/deploy kind of lifecycle.
