Comments on: Rocking To The Rhythm of a Groovy Beat http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2004/12/20/rocking-to-the-rhythm-of-a-groovy-beat/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Cramer http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2004/12/20/rocking-to-the-rhythm-of-a-groovy-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Tim Cramer Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:30:58 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=95#comment-56 James, I'm the engineering director at Sun working on NetBeans. Sun has always fully supported NetBeans, but you'll notice a renewed vigor in all of Sun's tools with NetBeans as the base. We're making great progress with NetBeans, with 4.0 just being released and our next release already in early access (with a focus on making J2EE development easier), you can see we're being aggressive, it's here: <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/index.html</a> I thought the proposal by Tim Bray was an excellent idea to engage a focused group of developers so we partnered with his group at Sun to make it happen. You'll see more innovation coming into NetBeans over the next 4-9 months. Some of the things that are either being developed or under discussion include a dramatically improved GUI builder, which I'm particularly excited about, the profiler which has a lot of power not before available for free, and collaboration capability to name a few. If you've never tried writing an app for a mobile device, you have to check out the Mobility Pack with NetBeans. Gosling's blog @ <a href="http://java.net/jag" rel="nofollow">http://java.net/jag</a> was not exaggerating. It's incredible and it makes it much easier to develop apps. I know this is a longer post, but just wanted to let you (and others) know that the team is really excited about what we're accomplishing and Sun is 100% behind us. Tim James,
I’m the engineering director at Sun working on NetBeans. Sun has always fully supported NetBeans, but you’ll notice a renewed vigor in all of Sun’s tools with NetBeans as the base.
We’re making great progress with NetBeans, with 4.0 just being released and our next release already in early access (with a focus on making J2EE development easier), you can see we’re being aggressive, it’s here: http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/index.html
I thought the proposal by Tim Bray was an excellent idea to engage a focused group of developers so we partnered with his group at Sun to make it happen. You’ll see more innovation coming into NetBeans over the next 4-9 months. Some of the things that
are either being developed or under discussion include a dramatically improved GUI builder, which I’m particularly excited about, the profiler which has a lot of power not before available for free, and collaboration capability to name a few.
If you’ve never tried writing an app for a mobile device, you have to check out the Mobility Pack with NetBeans. Gosling’s blog @ http://java.net/jag was not exaggerating. It’s incredible and it makes it much easier to develop apps.
I know this is a longer post, but just wanted to let you (and others) know that the team is really excited about what we’re accomplishing and Sun is 100% behind us.

Tim

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