The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform

Description

The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform is a thorough and definitive introduction to the NetBeans Platform, covering all its major application programming interfaces (APIs) in detail, with relevant code examples used throughout. The original German book on which this title is based was well received. The NetBeans platform community has put together this English translation, which author Heiko Böck updated to cover NetBeans platform 6.5 APIs. With an introduction by known NetBeans platform experts Jaroslav Tulach, Tim Boudreau, and Geertjan Wielenga, this is the most up-to-date book on this topic. All NetBeans platform developers will be interested in purchasing it, because several topics in the book have not been documented anywhere else. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Introduction....Pages 1-5 Structure of the NetBeans Platform....Pages 7-15 The Module System....Pages 17-43 Actions....Pages 45-59 User Interface Design....Pages 61-92 Lookup....Pages 93-108 File Access and Display....Pages 109-133 Graphical Components....Pages 135-173 Reusable NetBeans Platform Components....Pages 175-204 Internationalization and Localization....Pages 205-212 Real-World Application Development....Pages 213-218 Updating a NetBeans Platform Application....Pages 219-227 Persistence....Pages 229-259 Web Services....Pages 261-267 Extending the NetBeans IDE....Pages 269-277 From Eclipse RCP to the NetBeans Platform....Pages 279-285 Tips and Tricks....Pages 287-296 Example: MP3 Manager....Pages 297-329 Back Matter....Pages 331-341