| In NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, you'll find out how to use this IDE to its fullest,
making your Java programming more efficient and productive than ever before. You'll
understand the basics of the IDE, and quickly be utilizing the various editor and explorer
windows. You'll also master many of NetBeans advanced features, and be working with
XML documents, CVS repositories, Javadoc trees, and web applications, all within the
NetBeans framework.
Is NetBeans for you? The algorithm for answering this question is:
1. Determine what NetBeans does.
2. Decide if that functionality is for you.
NetBeans is first and foremost a well-crafted open source programmer's integrated development
environment (IDE). It's powerful, it's useful, it's extensible, it's open, and it's free.
Sometimes it is incorrectly thought that integrated development environments are intended to
make Java™ programming easier. You know already, though, that advanced tools don't save work
so much as they make the same amount of work yield more effective results. That's what
NetBeans does; it allows you to trade one set of practices for another. The practices that NetBeans
imposes are fully as intricate as your current development practices. More intricate, perhaps,
because if you are a real programmer, you will want to supplement your work style with NetBeans
rather than attempting to use NetBeans to completely replace your current work style. The practice
of NetBeans development is not easier. It's just more effective than what you were doing before
NetBeans. You get more done with NetBeans. |
