Foreword to the First Edition
The NetBeans IDE has really come a long way in the last few years. Since the first book was written, NetBeans has progressed from a tool with promise (from a small, young company in the Czech Republic) to one of the market leaders in the open source IDE tools space. It’s been like watching a child grow and mature over the years and blossom in ways you could have never predicted.
It’s a bit like watching Java grow. At first it was a language for the Internet and browsers. It was so versatile, people started using it in many ways. It developed into a great language for writing multi-tier applications. And then with J2EE, it created a whole new ecosystem of enterprise applications. ...
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