NUG Nagpur

Posted by: Rrahul Raja on: September 25, 2010

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I attended the First meetup of NetBeans User Group, Nagpur with passionate people of Netbeans Platform were present in the meetup and we enjoyed the meet together.

First I would like to introduce you with the NetBeans User Group, NUG nagpur is a group of nagpur users who are passionate about Netbeans platform . This group focuses mainly on enhancing the skills of using netbeans platform for creating the java projects.

In the first meet of the NUG Nagpur, we discussed the following points:

History of NetBeans

Why is NetBeans IDE /Platform and how much it is used to the developers?

Why NetBeans User Group, Nagpur

HISTORY OF NetBeans:

A story of Jarda Tulach (NetBeans founder & architect), about how he started developing NetBeans as his Final Year Project and many of the colleagues joined him later on. They started with their own company “NetBeans” in 1998 with the release of the NetBeans IDE as the first commercial product and it then, Sun Microsystems took over that company and all the members of NetBeans joined Sun Microsystems for the later development of the product.

NetBeans began in 1996 as Xelfi (word play on Delphi), a Java IDE student project under the guidance of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles Universityin Prague. In 1997 Roman Staněk formed a company around the project and produced commercial versions of the NetBeans IDE until it was bought by Sun Microsystemsin 1999. Sun open-sourced the NetBeans IDE in June of the following year. The NetBeans community has since continued to grow, thanks to individuals and companies using and contributing to the project. The below figure shows the different year wise releases of the NetBeans IDE

Why there is need of NetBeans IDE /Platform:

NetBeans Platform

The NetBeans Platform is a reusable framework for simplifying the development of Java Swing desktop applications. The NetBeans IDE bundle for Java SE contains what is needed to start developing NetBeans plugins and NetBeans Platform based applications; no additional SDK is required.

Applications can install modules dynamically. Any application can include the Update Center module to allow users of the application to download digitally-signedupgrades and new features directly into the running application. Reinstalling an upgrade or a new release does not force users to download the entire application again.

The platform offers reusable services common to desktop applications, allowing developers to focus on the logic specific to their application. Among the features of the platform are:

User interface management (e.g. menus and toolbars)
User settings management
Storage management (saving and loading any kind of data)
Window management
Wizard framework (supports step-by-step dialogs)
NetBeans Visual Library

NetBeans IDE

The NetBeans IDE is an open-source integrated development environment. NetBeans IDE supports development of all Java application types (Java SE including JavaFX, (Java ME, web, EJB andmobile applications) out of the box. Among other features are an Ant-based project system, Maven support, refactorings, version control (supporting CVS, Subversion, Mercurial and Clearcase).

Modularity: All the functions of the IDE are provided by modules. Each module provides a well defined function, such as support for the Java language, editing, or support for the CVS versioning system, and SVN. NetBeans contains all the modules needed for Java development in a single download, allowing the user to start working immediately. Modules also allow NetBeans to be extended. New features, such as support for other programming languages, can be added by installing additional modules. For instance, Sun Studio, Sun Java Studio Enterprise, and Sun Java Studio Creatorfrom Sun Microsystems are all based on the NetBeans IDE.

License: From July 2006 through 2007, NetBeans IDE was licensed under Sun’s Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), a license based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). In October 2007, Sun announced that NetBeans would henceforth be offered under a dual license of the CDDL and the GPL version 2 licenses, with the GPL linking exception for GNU Classpath.

Why NetBeans User Group, Nagpur:

We recently had our 1st NUG meet. This meet was held at Beans and Buddies, North Ambazari Road , Nagpur on 23rd Sept. This meet was headed by Tushar Joshi sir.

We really thank Tushar Joshi sir for motivating all of us for joining this group.

The things which motivated us for joining this group was the promise of NetBeans platform. The benefits given to us by netbeans are awesome. There are lot of benefits which we could have used it earlier but we were unaware of those. I really thank Tushar sir for making us aware about those benefits.

The benefits of NetBeans are:

NetBeans is a successful open source project which is being carried out since 10 years. we have facility to actually see the source code of the netbeans which is developed by brilliant engineers. so that’s the first benefit, where we get a chance to see the code written by the most experienced and brilliant engineer.

And that’s not enough! we even have a chance of communicating with all those engineers which helps us in improving our self. and moreover, the addon to all this things is that we can contribute our work in netbeans by creating a patch or plugin for the netbeans.

so all this benefits really motivated me for joining this group of brilliant engineers.

The best thing about this group is that NetBeans weekly Newsletter covered our user group this week . We are also offered free 2 days training for learning the NetBeans platform. All the attendees will get Netbeans Certified Associates certificate on attending this training program. And after training we will be given a task and completion of that task would give us Netbeans Certified Engineers certificate.

Below are some happy moments which were captured in the First Meet of NetBeans User Group, Nagpur