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Welcome to the NetBeans Community Docs Entry Page

First time contributor? Be sure to read Varun Nischal's Getting Started With NetBeans Docs .

All around the world, members of communities contribute to make their community a better one. NetBeans is no different. You can make a direct impact on the quality of the NetBeans community by contributing docs in a number of formats.

• Tutorials. Teach someone how to use your plug-in, or simply show someone how to perform a task using the NetBeans IDE. You can write a whole tutorial, or send us your list of steps and best practices that you discovered, and our writers will turn them into a tutorial. We will even provide you with a tutorial template.
• Flash Demos. Demonstrate how tasks can be performed using the NetBeans IDE. You can make a Flash demo from any existing tutorial, or create a new Flash demo. Look here to see how to create a Flash demo.
• FAQs. Do you have the answers? Add them to the User FAQ wiki page or write a short HowTo and link it here.
• Tips and Tricks. Share ideas and give advice to other users.
• Translations. Translate existing documentation into your language. Help others to better understand NetBeans. Check out http://translatedfiles.NetBeans.org/ for information on translating NetBeans.
• Blogging. Blogging about NetBeans? Just send us the URL and join the community.

How to Contribute Docs Content

1. First, check the docs wish list on this page to see possible topics for tutorials, tech tips, white papers, flash tutorials, blogs, etc. Please note that one subject can (and often should) be covered in several formats, so if someone has signed up to blog about something, that doesn't mean that someone else can't expand that blog into a full tutorial or flash demo.
2. Send an email to the Community Docs Manager (james.branam@sun.com), stating what you intend to contribute. If you choose to write a tutorial from the Wish List, add the list to the Community Docs in Progress Table with your name.
3. When you are ready to publish your content, add the appropriate information to the Contributions Table on this wiki page.

Guidelines for Contributing

Here is a list of things to consider if you want to contribute.

• If doing an FAQ, make sure you link the FAQ from the master FAQ index.
• If doing tutorials, articles, or tips and tricks:
  • Create the wiki page with the tutorial.
  • Link it from an entry in the Community Contributions Table.
  • If you're doing one of the things in the wish list, sign up for it.
  • Send an email to dev@usersguide.NetBeans.org telling us about your contribution so we can advertise it

NetBeans Community Docs email Alias

If you have contributed, or planning to contribute, there is an email alias for community contributors: dev@usersguide.NetBeans.org. The alias is generally a place for discussions about things like priorities for contribution, style, and other interesting things. We're waiting for you to join this discussion because your input is valuable.

If you haven't signed up to the alias, here's how:

1. Go to http://usersguide.NetBeans.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList and log on with your user name. (If you don't have one, just click Login.Then you can register for one.)
2. Scroll down to the dev@usersguide.NetBeans.org mailing list. Click subscribe and a subscription request will be sent.
3. Within a few seconds, an email will arrive asking you to confirm the subscription. Just send an empty email back.

See you there!

NetBeans Community Docs Blog

The NetBeans Community Docs project blog is at http://nb-community-docs.blogspot.com/. This is the place where the manager, content-manager and the co-ordinator of the project blogs about the program.

Community Docs Contributions

Here is the list of docs contributed to the NetBeans Community by community members. Most recent contributions are listed first. Note: Documention is eventually moved to the Community Doc Archives or to the netbeans.org Community Docs Web Page

Contribution No.	Date	Title of Contribution	Category	Contributor	Contact	Location
169.	Jul 3, 2008	Tutorial de NetBeans Visual Library en Español	Tutorial	Aristides Villarreal Bravo	avbravo@gmail.com	URL
168.	Jul 3, 2008	EJB development for Glassfish using Maven2 and Spring	Tutorial	Kristian Rink	kawazu <at> zimmer428 <dot> net	URL
167.	Jul 1, 2008	Java ME development on Mac OS X	Tutorial	Junda	junda@just2me.com	URL
166.	Jun 29, 2008	JavaMail For Starters	Tutorial	Agraj Mangal	agraj.mng AT gmail DOT com	URL
165.	Jun 29, 2008	Simple GUI-based Parser using StringTokenizer	Tutorial	Samir Kumar Mishra	samirkumar.mishra AT gmail DOT com	URL
164.	Jun 27, 2008	Enable Whitespace For Diff	Tips & Tricks	Hubert A Klein Ikkink	h.kleinikink at gmail dot com	URL
163.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Hacking Module's XML Layer in NetBeans (Part 2)	Tips & Tricks	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
162.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Tweak XML Layer By Code Replacement	HowTo	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
161.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Tweak XML Layer By Code Deduction	HowTo	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
160.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Hacking Module's XML Layer in NetBeans (Part 1)	Tips & Tricks	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
159.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Transforming Actions (Part 2)	Tutorial	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
158.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Transforming Actions (Part 1)	Tutorial	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
157.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Creating CookieAction's from Scratch	Tutorial	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
156.	Jun 26, 2008	Platform- Creating CallableSystemAction's from Scratch	Tutorial	Varun Nischal	nvarun at NetBeans dot org	URL
155.	Jun 18, 2008	10 Great Features In Netbeans IDE 6.1	Article	Zach J. Elko	zachelko at gmail dot com	URL
154.	Jun 13, 2008	Hot Deployment of a Web Application with Maven in NetBeans	Tips & Tricks	Hubert A Klein Ikkink	h.kleinikink at gmail dot com	URL
153.	Jun 13, 2008	Fast Bookmarking in NetBeans	Tips & Tricks	Hubert A Klein Ikkink	h.kleinikink at gmail dot com	URL
152.	Jun 12, 2008	Using a Stack with Ruby	Tips & Tricks	John Muchow	jwmuchow at gmail dot com	URL
151.	Jun 12, 2008	Using a String as a File in Ruby	Tips & Tricks	John Muchow	jwmuchow at gmail dot com	URL
150.	May 22, 2008	Creating a Java Client for Del.icio.us Web Services	Tutorial	Amit Kumar Saha	amitksaha@NetBeans.org	URL
149.	May 22, 2008	Troubleshooting NetBeans Startup (Part 2)	Tips & Tricks	Varun Nischal	nvarun@NetBeans.org	URL
148.	May 22, 2008	Passing Runtime Arguments using NetBeans	Tips & Tricks	Varun Nischal	nvarun@NetBeans.org	URL
147.	May 22, 2008	Checking out java.net Projects using NetBeans	Tutorial	Rajath Shanbag	rajath dot nitk at gmail dot com	URL
146.	May 22, 2008	Introduction to SunSpot Development using NetBeans	Tutorial	Rajath Shanbag & Ashwin Bhat	rajath dot nitk at gmail dot com	URL
145.	May 19, 2008	Creating an EJB3 (Session Beans) using Netbeas 6.1 and Glassfish	Tutorial	Jair Rillo Junior	jrjuniorsp@yahoo.com.br	URL
144.	May 17, 2008	Demo Embedded Derby and Bean Binding with NetBeans 6	Tutorial(Flash Demo)	Prakan Puvibunsuk	prakan at gmail dot com	URL
143.	May 16, 2008	Resolve References to compile JNLP projects with NetBeans 6.x	Tips & Tricks	Michael Lockhart	sinewalker@gmail.com	URL
142.	May 14, 2008	Using the JBI JavaEE Service Engine	Tutorial	James Lorenzen	james.lorenzen@accenture.com	URL
141.	May 12, 2008	Simulating the 'soutv' code template for Java Editor	Tutorial	Kunal Modi	kgmodi at gmail dot com	URL
140.	May 07, 2008	Open Projects Programatically in NetBeans	Tutorial	Kunal Modi	kgmodi at gmail dot com	URL
139.	May 03, 2008	Cloning using Mercurial in Netbeans 6.1	Tutorial	Tushar Joshi	tusharvjoshi@gmail.com	URL
	Community Documentation submitted prior to May 1, 2008 is now located in the Community Docs Archives. See below for more information about archiving

Community Docs Archives

For a list of more documentation, be sure to check out the NetBeans Community Docs Archive. NetBeans Community Docs Archive

Community Docs in Progress

Here is the list of docs currently being written by community members. Most recent entries are listed first.

Date Added	Document in Progress	Category	Author	Contact	Comments
May 28, 2008	Usage of Spring and hibernate in NetBeans Platform application	Tutorial & Code	Filip Jirsák	filip@jirsak.org	Started, sample application attached
May 26, 2008	Using Ibatis in Swing Application Inside NetBeans IDE	Tutorial (id_ID)	Martinus Ady H	mrt.itnewbies@gmail.com	Started.
May 14, 2008	DB Explorer Communication API	Code & Tutorial	Bret Fisher	bfisher2@cfl.rr.com	Started. 60% completed.
Mar 20, 2008	MeshCMS: Site Maintaineance using NetBeans 6	Tutorial	Kristian Rink	kawazu <at> zimmer428 <dot> net	work in progress
October 23,2007	Importing Eclipse projects into NetBeans	sub-project	Amit Kumar Saha	amitsaha.in@gmail.com	in progress

• I have already NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 over NetBeans 5.5.1 in my PC. How do I install NetBeans 6.0?

Community Docs Wish List

Looking for an idea to write a tutorial about? Here are some things we would love to have tutorials and Flash demos on.

Do you want to suggest a tutorial or sign up for writing one?

Date Added	Document	Requested By	Contact (Optional)
June 11, 2008	Netbeans IDE Integration of Bug Trackers (howto mylyn in netbeans)
October 21, 2007	Importing an Eclipse project into NetBeans	John Jullion-Ceccarelli	John Jullion-Ceccarelli
October 21, 2007	Importing a JBuilder project into NetBeans	John Jullion-Ceccarelli	John Jullion-Ceccarelli
August 20, 2007	Simple visual Web application (incl. documentation) using simple form based authentication with JAAS against a DB (e.g. login, logout, sessionhandling	Christian Meyer
May 29, 2007	Creating Modules: Adding support for external JSF components (eg. myfaces,...) -> Adding to the palette, visual web support, code completion...
May 22, 2007	Creating Modules: How to add support for Refactoring	Thomas Zillinger
May 22, 2007	Creating Modules: How to write a Bridge to use Suggestions/Task View	Thomas Zillinger
April 2, 2007	Adding JavaHelp for standard projects	Chuck Davis
March 22, 2007	Extending the Database Explorer for Database specific views	Thomas Zillinger
March 9, 2007	Using an Exiting XSD with a Web Service Within an EJB Container	John Hilgedick
February 28, 2007	Porting Eclipse Plug-ins to NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Porting SWT Applications to Swing/NetBeans Platform
February 28, 2007	Porting a regular Swing programs to use the NetBeans Platform
February 28, 2007	Placing a NetBeans projects into CVS
February 28, 2007	Checking out from CVS and doing headless builds
February 28, 2007	Update NetBeans and SSH article
February 28, 2007	Doing Java EE 5 Development in NetBeans 5.5
February 28, 2007	Developing Spring Framework Applications With NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Using the Tapestry Framework With NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Using Facelets with NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Developing EJB 2.1 CMP Entity Beans with JBoss in NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Converting an EJB2 application to EJB3 with NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Converting a Hibernate2 application to EJB3 with NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Tag Library development in NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Integrating JDIC components with NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Accessing MS Access/MSSQL from NetBeans
February 28, 2007	Deploying projects to commercial hosting services such as GoDaddy when the server doesn't find the correct folders for java scripts.	Sapan Parikh
June 13, 2008	Totorial for building a visual JSF application with multiple selection in a datatable

Have an idea that is not on the list? Contact the Docs Community Manager (james.branam at sun dot com) for more information.

NetBeans for Eclipse Users

• EclipseToNetBeans - Migrate your Eclipse projects to NetBeans
• NetBeans for Eclipse users
• Improved Eclipse Key Bindings For NetBeans 6

FAQs

Q: My English isn't that good. Can I still contribute a tutorial?
A: Of course you can. Just make the steps clear and easy to follow. Another community member can edit it for you.
Q: I blog in French. Does this qualify as a contribution to the community?
A: Yes. NetBeans users are based all around the world. Blogging in any language contributes to the community.
Q: I have translated some help files into Swedish. Does this count as a contribution?
A: Yes. Your contribution may help someone in the community.

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