NASA Adopts the NetBeans Platform

Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, recently spent some time with engineers at NASA, showing them how to use the NetBeans Platfom.
Below, he reflects on some of the interesting engineering needs that NASA has and how the NetBeans Platform is well suited to respond to these. During the interview, Tom Wheeler, one of the NetBeans Platform's several external contributors, talks about his participation in the course at NASA, too!

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IBM developerWorks celebrates 10 years

With developerWorks, IBM sought to foster adherence to industry standards, company officials said. "Instead of building a developer portal that talked about DB2, we built a portal that talked about Java" and XML and Web services, said Dirk Nicol, IBM program director for emerging technology. He was the lead in setting up developerWorks, which has seen its traffic grow from 200,000 unique monthly visitors in 1999 to 4 million visitors per month now...

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JSR Watch: Here’s to Progress

The end of the year is an opportunity to review the past year’s activity, and to present this to our Executive Committee (EC) members, to our broader membership, and to the general public. So this month I will summarize our progress during the past year. First, in addition to the ongoing work of moving JSRs through the process (more on this later), the JCP engaged in a couple of new initiatives around transparency and agility...

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Java for Google AppEngine, finally!

At last after one year, Google announced the availability of the Java for AppEngine platform. When the AppEngine announced last year, the very first issue filed was - a request for Java. Since then lots of Java developers want to see their favorite language supported by the AppEngine. Finally it arrived and let's take a look at the features/limitations...

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Ajax: Tools of the trade

Ajax has effectively launched a new era in JavaScript development, bringing with it a plethora of robust tools for the JavaScript programmer. Take a quick tour of the tools you could be using for JS development, debugging, testing, and more. You'll never code JavaScript in just a text editor again...

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