The Only Complete Guide and Reference for NetBeans™ IDE 5.0

The award-winning NetBeans™ IDE eases all aspects of Java application development, incorporating a wide range of powerful features into one well-designed package. NetBeans IDE is consistently first in supporting the latest Java technologies for developing desktop, web, enterprise, and mobile applications.

NetBeans™ IDE Field Guide provides an introduction to the IDE and an extensive range of topics to help you with both everyday and advanced programming tasks, including

• Taking advantage of the Ant-based project system to create easily deployable projects

• Developing web applications with the built-in Apache Tomcat web server

• Constructing, assembling, and verifying large-scale Java EE applications

• Managing the Sun Java System Application Server through NetBeans IDE

• Developing mobile applications with the NetBeans Mobility Pack

• In this expanded second edition, you can also learn how to

• Build powerful and attractive desktop applications with the Matisse GUI Builder

• Profile your applications for performance issues

• Develop modules for NetBeans IDE and rich-client applications based on the NetBeans Platform

• Chat and share code with other developers using the NetBeans Collaboration Modules

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 12 Ratings

Seriously Out of Date; Limited Topic Coverage - 2006-09-22
Reviewer Rating:
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.

Hasn't been useful so far. - 2006-08-22
Reviewer Rating:
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.

NetBeans(TM) IDE Field Guide: Developing Desktop, Web, Enterprise, and Mobile Applications (2nd Edition) - 2008-12-01
Reviewer Rating:
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.

A very complete and easy to follow guide - 2006-07-03
Reviewer Rating:
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.

Netbeans 2nd Edition - 2006-07-03
Reviewer Rating:
I received the book on time. As result, I give you guys an A

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