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Archive of Video Tutorials and Demos of NetBeans IDE 6.0 and 6.1

Here you'll find all videos and demos which let you to discover features of NetBeans IDE including the Java Editor and Profiler, Ruby IDE, GUI Builder and the Visual Library. Although many of the videos were made for version 6.0, most of them also work in version 6.1 of NetBeans IDE.

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Intro to NetBeans IDE

Watch the Guided Video Tour of NetBeans IDE and experience the completely rewritten editor infrastructure, advanced support for Ruby and Ruby on Rails, profiler improvements, integrated support for the Swing Application Framework and Beans Binding, a new Visual Mobile Designer for Java ME applications. You also learn how to access web services from visual web application and mobile phones.

NetBeans IDE 6.0 Archive: Featured Demos

Time: 6:07
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July 30, 2008

Getting started with OpenLaszlo and NetBeans IDE

By Sotohiro Terashima (project homepage)

OpenLaszlo is a Flash-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) web framework. Sotohiro Terashima's screencast shows you how to install the OpenLaszlo Plugin and create a new OpenLaszlo-based web application. The plugin works with the NetBeans IDE version 5.5.1, 6.0 or 6.1 and can be downloaded from the OpenLaszlo for NetBeans IDE homepage.

Time: 11:09
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June 04, 2008

iReport from JasperSoft

By Kuldip Oberoi (Kuldip's blog)

Giulio Toffoli, iReport Architect and Project Founder, leads us through a demonstration of how to build a report using NetBeans 6 and the iReport plugin. The iReport wizard allows you to rapidly create reports from a variety of different data sources and provides the ability to customize when needed.

Time: 7:52
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April 13, 2008

Intland Software and CodeBeamer

By Kuldip Oberoi (Kuldip's blog)

Learn how codeBeamer, Intland Software's premier technology, is changing the way distributed teams work together. Developers working in different locations worldwide can now effectively work and communicate together on a higher development level. Based on Java technology, codeBeamer is fully integrated with NetBeans.

Time: 6:57
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May 04, 2008

Getting Started with GlassFish v3 TP2

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)

This screencast shows how to get started with GlassFish v3 TP2 using NetBeans IDE 6.1. The screencast shows how to download and install GlassFish v3 TP2, install the new GlassFish integration plug-ins, develop and deploy a simple web application with JSP and Servlets on the newly installed GlassFish.

NetBeans IDE 6.0 Archive: All Demos

The New JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1

NetBeans IDE 6.1 contains a completely new JavaScript editor which provides many advanced editing capabilities such as intelligent code completion, mark occurences, instant rename, on-fly analysis of JavaScript libraries, support for many Ajax frameworks and more.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
April 28, 2008
Time: 5:39
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Accessing Web Services from a Visual Web Application

Building web applications with the IDE's visual tools is easier in version 6.0. Accessing web services is also easier. This brief demo shows how to build a web application that uses a web service.

By Gregg Sporar (Gregg's blog)
March 26, 2008
Time: 4:25
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Petr Suchomel Shows Off NetBeans 6.0

Petr Suchomel, Senior Architect in Sun Microsystem's Java & Developer Platform Group, gives an introduction to why you should use NetBeans 6.0. The demonstration continues in part 2, as Petr gives a glimpse of the IDE's possibilites when developing mobile games. These videos are hosted on the Swedish Game Awards 08 website.

By Petr Suchomel (Petr's blog)
March 06, 2008
Time: --:--
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Demo of NetBeans IDE & MySQL with Roman Strobl

MySQL, the popular open-source database, is now part of Sun's software portfolio. In a new screencast from NetBeans technology evangelist Roman Strobl, get a quick start to developing database driven applications with the NetBeans IDE using the MySQL database server. The demo goes through the steps of connecting to a database from NetBeans, using the MySQL editor to create tables, and exposing the tables in a desktop application and the data as web services.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
March 03, 2008
Time: 07:10

Nick Sieger Uses RSpec with the NetBeans Ruby Support

Nick Sieger demonstrates behavior driven development using RSpec in the NetBeans Ruby support. He tests the Ruby Weblog application by using the Red/Green refactor cycle of running, modifying, saving, and running tests.

By Cindy Church, Nick Sieger (Nicks's blog)
February 08, 2008
Time: 10:53
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Live Code Templates in the NetBeans IDE 6.0 Ruby Editor

Tor Norbye demos Live Code Templates in the NetBeans Ruby Editor.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
December 02, 2007
Time: 2:29
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99 Second Demos: Creating a Java Project

This introductory video illustrates how to create a Standard Java project with NetBeans IDE 6.0.

By Sherry Barkodar (Sherry's blog)
December 01, 2007
Time: 0:48

99 Second Demos: Creating a Ruby on Rails Weblog

This video illustrates how to use Netbeans IDE 6.0's Ruby on Rails features to create a simple Weblog application in about a minute.

By Sherry Barkodar (Sherry's blog)
December 01, 2007
Time: 1:57

Ruby Unit Testing

Tor Norbye demonstrates writing and running unit tests using the NetBeans Ruby Support in this 3-minute screencast.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
November 20, 2007
Time: 3:00
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CRUD using jMaki and JPA

Arun Gupta creates a simple jMaki application that performs CRUD operations on a Data Table widget. It uses Java Persistence API (JPA) to connect to the database and the application is deployed on GlassFish.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
November 13, 2007
Time: 11:45

Creating Ruby on Rails Weblog

Tor Norbye uses the NetBeans IDE 6.0 Ruby on Rails Support to create a classic Ruby Weblog in less than 9 minutes.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
November 6, 2007
Time: 9:04
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NetBeans Ruby Debugger

Roman Strobl demonstrates the NetBeans Ruby Debugger features such as adding breakpoints, running tests, analyzing local variables, exploring call stacks, and viewing watches.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
October 2, 2007
Time: 4:38
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Secure and Reliable Web Service Using Metro/GlassFish

This screencast shows how a Secure and Reliable Web service can be easily developed using NetBeans 6 and deployed on Metro/GlassFish. Find more information in Arun's blog.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
October 03, 2007
Time: 13:03

Hints and Quick Fixes in the Ruby Editor

Tor Norbye demonstrates hints and quick fixes in the NetBeans Ruby Editor.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
September 10, 2007
Time: 3:21
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NetBeans Ruby Editor Code Completion

What does ctrl-space do? Ruby developer Tor Norbye shows code completion features of the NetBeans Ruby Editor.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
September 10, 2007
Time: 2:02

YouTube: NetBeans REST Web Services, Building and Deploying (Part 1)

Developer Rico Cruz shows how to use NetBeans to create RESTful web services using persistence entity classes and how to compose RESTful web service resources using well-known web services, such as Google Map.

By Rico Cruz
September 5, 2007
Time: 4:17

YouTube: NetBeans REST Testing and Invoking REST Resources (Part 2)

NetBeans REST Web Service test client provides URI navigation between related resources and invocation of resource interface methods.

By Rico Cruz
September 5, 2007
Time: 4:01

Integration of Ruby and Java Development

Tor Norbye uses NetBeans IDE 6.0 to integrate Java desktop CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) functionality with a Ruby on Rails application. He highlights the code completion and live templates features of the Java and Ruby editors, the Rails code generator, and the IDE's JUnit module.

By Tor Norbye (Tor's blog)
August 31, 2007
Time: 8:58

Sun Blogs: First JRuby App in GlassFish

This screencast shows how a JRuby application can be developed and deployed using NetBeans Ruby IDE. Find more information in Arun's blog.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
August 8, 2007
Time: 14:30

Sun Blogs: jMaki on Rails for Dummies

This screencast By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog) shows how a jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget can be used to pull data from MySQL database using ActiveRecord in a Rails application. This is a screencast of the Jmaki on Rails for Dummies tutorial that uses NetBeans IDE 6.0 (Milestone 9) and the jMaki plug-in.

By Arun Gupta (Arun's blog)
September 5, 2007
Time: 14:08

NetBeans Visual Library

In this video tutorial, Roumen creates an application with graph-oriented content using the visual library.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
May 2007
Time: 18:36
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NetBeans IDE 6.0 GlassFish Integration

XML Multiview editor for deployment descriptor editing, per-instance options, profiler integration, shared installation registration, usage profile, JDBC driver deployment, resource persistence, directory deployment of enterprise application. More details...

By Vince Kraemer (Vince's blog)
May 2007
Time: 3:00

Getting Started with NetBeans IDE 6.0 - Preview

Learn how to find news and samples on the welcome screen and create new projects. Use templates, error marks, and code completion in the editor. The preview of NetBeans IDE 6.0 also covers debugging, refactoring, and unit testing.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
May 2007
Time: 6:29

Ruby Editing in NetBeans IDE 6.0 - Preview

This demo covers smart code completion including regular expression completion, Ruby documentation window (rdoc), syntax coloring, class navigation, hyperlinking, code formating, refactoring, switching between Ruby/JRuby.

By Roman Strobl (Roman's blog)
March 2007
Time: 4:55

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