Pro Netbeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition [Paperback]

Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition is the second Apress book to cover the agile, open source NetBeans IDE platform. The book focuses on the new features of NetBeans 6 as well as what has changed since NetBeans 5.5, empowering you to be a more effective and productive developer.

• Enables you to click and use any of the Java Swing and other desktop Java graphical user interface (GUI) APIs available in Java SE 6 or prior
• Covers working with rich client platform features available in NetBeans for building webbased application front ends
• Shows you the webtier development plug-ins available including JSF, Struts Action Framework 2.0, and JRuby for bringing the Ruby on Rails feature set to Java via NetBeans

For building backend, serverside Java applications, pick up Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition, which is based on APIs found in the Java EE 5.

Intro to Netbeans Tools and Features.- Integrated Development Environments.- Downloading, Installing, Customizing.- Working with Java Projects.- The Source Editor (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Code Completion (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Refactoring (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Netbeans Debugger.- Netbeans Software Development Tools (Javadoc, CVS, Ant, JUnit, Checkstyle, etc.- Netbeans Profiler (Heavily updated for known changes in NB 6.0).- Netbeans Collaboration Tools.- Netbeans Database Tools (Heavily updated for expected changes in NB 6.0).- Part 2 - Java GUI / Swing Development.- Netbeans GUI Project Features.- Developing a Swing Application From Start to Finish.- Deploying GUI Applications / Java Web Start.- Part 3  Plug-in and Rich Client Application Development (mostly w/JSF).- Plug-in Module Tools and Features.- Developing a Plug-in From Start to Finish.- Developing Rich Client Applicalã1