The first milestone release of WSIT is now available, and this blog will show readers how to develop a WebService from scratch using the Netbeans 5.5 Beta release and add Security to the WebService. In particular we will show how to enable SecureConversation for the service.... more »

NetBeans IDE 6.0 was released yesterday. TheServerSide.com has generated some discussion and Charles Ditzel presents a nice overview in his blog. But there are many people behind NetBeans, of course, each working on tooling relating to specific areas of the IDE—Java EE, Java SE, Java ME, Ruby, C/C++, the NetBeans Platform, the web site, the documentation, and the the evangelism team.... more »

We've got an exciting development bubbling that I hope to be able to announce in full detail at FOSS.IN in Bangalore on Friday when I speak there.... more »

Java has powerful debugging facilities. Most of you that use debugging have seen that when stepping over a JRE class, no variables, members and values are available. This is because JRE distributions are (even beta's) compiled without including debug info. This is because of preserving memory and improving performance of default Java program execution. ... more »

MigLayout is a Layout Manager for Swing and SWT created to replace all current layout managers and introduces a very easy to understand yet powerful syntax that resembles CSS.... more »

XMLContentHandler provides a structured approach to building a data structure from XML content using SAX parser. Generally most of the data structures can be built in a top down approach where a parent gets created first and then children add themselves to the parent. This utility class facilitates building data structures in such a top down approach. ... more »

Netbeans 6 has been released, with the primary focuses being on editor enhancements and language support. Netbeans is getting a lot of good reviews in the Ruby community, for example, with excellent Rails and JRuby support. The editor, they say, is much more responsive than in previous releases.... more »

JBoss is pleased to announce a community beta release of JBoss JSFUnit. JSFUnit is an open source community dedicated to testing JSF applications, based on Cactus and JUnit. It provides three different testing tools: an in-container testing framework, a dramework for JSF static analysis testing, and a JSFTimer for performance testing of the JSF lifecycle.... more »

A Bangalore start-up named InstaColl, co-founded, chaired and underwritten by Sabeer Bhatia, who did HotMail, which Microsoft bought in 1997 for a reported $400 million, has launched into the Office business sorta like Google, Zoho, Adobe et al with some hybrid online/offline widgetry called Live Documents. Live Documents, which unfortunately isn't live, is a suite of online productivity apps that its creators claim is the functional equivalent of Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007 matching features such as Excel's macros and table styles and PowerPoint's live preview.... more »

Today, I'm going to explain how to save some steps by downloading the latest build of the OpenJFX Compiler rather than building it on your machine. If you decided not to build the compiler because it looked like a hassle, then relax - this is a lot easier. Just follow the instructions on the PlanetJFX page entitled How to Download the Latest Compiler Build Instead of Building It.... more »