Ebook: NetBeans: The Definitive Guide

Written for experienced programmers, this guide introduces the NetBeans open source integrated development environment (IDE) for writing Java code and packaging JavaBeans. The 28 chapters explain the syntax-coloring source editor, GUI development, the role of XML, the open APIs, the internals of the running IDE, building a mail reader, and tuning modules for performance. Five of the chapters demonstrate the creation of a mini-composer module.