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Design Patterns Quick Reference (and others)
Ever wanted a poster of Design Patterns ? Here is one for free on Jason McDonald’s blog. You can also find many useful poster or "Refcardz" on dzone.com. The Design Patterns one is also made by Jason. ou’ll find others on Java, Netbeans, eclipse or others.…
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Swing or SWT
When programming GUI with Java, the question of the choice between Swing and SWT . My personal choice is Swing, first af all because I use it for a while. For example, I worked on a simple application in 2003 to created thumbnails images for original (a web photo gallery) written…
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Reusable Ant build file
Hello, I’m back from some vacations. The topic I want to discuss this time is the use of ant build files. I don’t like the build files generated by netbeans. Why ? Working in a professional environment, you have to master all your building chain : know what…
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XML binding with JAXB 3/3 : plugins
Once you’ll have been working with JAXB basis, you’ll want to enhance what your doing. For example, in my case, I want to bind my datas with a GUI. For that, I’ll need to use beans binding (JSR 295) with netbeans. You can begin…
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Installing a developer "Suite"
I’m installing an environment to support a project that will illustrate my writing about Java. As I’ll write a desktop application, I’ll Netbeans for the IDE. Next, I need a SCM (which is a Key Process Area of CMM Level 2) or rather a…
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Debugging in Eclipse vs Netbeans
This subject was suggested when talking about Eclipse and Netbeans at work. The question was does Netbeans implements hot code replace (HCR or hot method replace). As this feature is available since JDK 1.4.x, it should be possible under Netbeans, the Sun IDE. First, what is HCR ? The…
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VisualEditor (Eclipse) vs Matisse (Netbeans)
Writing my precedent post, I decided to take back a look at VE. So I installed last version (1.4) of VE on my 3.4 eclipse. So, is VE up to Matisse features ? The response is quickly given : No ! VE does not give you the rapid placement of components…
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Eclipse or Netbeans ?
When developing with Java, one of the first question is what IDE to used. As I have worked with Eclipse and netbeans, I’ll give my feedback on them. Both are good at editing source code (fortunately). There’s no major difference on basic tasks to develop an…