NetBeans(TM) IDE Field Guide : Developing Desktop, Web, Enterprise, and Mobile Applications

The Only Complete Guide and Reference for NetBeans IDE 4.1! The award-winning NetBeans integrated development environment is today's state-of-the-art Java IDE. NetBeans is the first free, open source IDE to support Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0, and it's a leader in providing advanced support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), and other technologies. NetBeans IDE eases all aspects of Java application development, incorporating a wide range of powerful features into one well-designed package. NetBeansaA A IDE Field Guide is a comprehensive introductory guide and task reference--it's the fast-answers NetBeans `cookbook` for every Java developer. The authors show you how to use NetBeans to build applications for the desktop, web, enterprise, and handset.Coverage includes *Navigating NetBeans IDE, and creating, opening, and configuring projects *Using NetBeans' special Ant integration to work with complex existing projects *Maximizing productivity in everyday coding, debugging, and refactoring *Developing web applications with NetBeans' built-in Apache Tomcat Web server *Creating and consuming web services *Using enterprise beans to extend web applications with business logic *Constructing, assembling, and verifying large-scale J2EE applications *Managing the Sun Java System Application Server through NetBeans IDE *Developing J2ME handheld applications with the NetBeans Mobility Pack If you're new to NetBeans, this book will help you quickly leverage its power throughout the entire edit-compile-test-debug-deploy cycle. If you've worked with older versions, you'll learn how to make the most of its dramatic improvements. Whatever you're building with Java, NetBeansaA A IDE Field Guide will help you build it faster, better, and more efficiently.

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NetBeans(TM) IDE Field Guide: Developing Desktop, Web, Enterprise, and Mobile Applications (2nd Edition)
This book contains a lot of valuable information and is an excellent companion to using the NetBeans tutorials. It has been very helpful to me to get up to speed in using NetBeans for developing Java applications.

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Seriously Out of Date; Limited Topic Coverage
This book covers up to Netbeans 4.1; the current revision on the streets is 5.0 and the 5.5 Beta is almost ready to go live. Unfortunately there are big differences between the 4.x and 5.x versions, rendering this book useless to all but those who need the most basic NB usage info.

Seriously lacking in this book (revision issues aside) is any information on `Netbeans Platform` development. This is a serious oversight. When will we find a good, current Netbeans book that covers Platform and Module development in depth???

I returned it to Amazon after about an hour reviewing it. It simply does not meet the need for today's Netbeans Developer.

User review
Hasn't been useful so far.
I bought the Field Guide shortly after starting to use NetBeans a couple months ago. To be honest, I really haven't used this book.

NetBeans is pretty intuitive and there's a lot of documentation available in Help and online. There are some good tutorials online that will get you up to speed faster than a 500 page hardcopy walkthrough.

Maybe it will prove to be a useful reference some day, but I doubt it.

Just my opinion.

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Netbeans 2nd Edition
I received the book on time. As result, I give you guys an A

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A very complete and easy to follow guide
I have been using Netbeans sometime but really wanted to get a book to learn more about this powerful tool. I really like this book and think the author did a great job explaining many of the features.

I feel that I will be more productive now that I have this book. For any Netbeans users, I would recommend it. This is a nice complement to an already outstanding development environment.