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NetBeans IDE NetBeans Platform Plugins Docs & Support Community Partners netbeans.orgprojectsuiWebsite User Interface Corner This is the home page for anything related to design of NetBeans UI. Here, you can find all user interface specifications, usability studies and other resources realted to UI. Also don’t forget to visit blog of Sun User eXperience Design team . Graphic Repository The Graphic Repository contains all graphic material related to NetBeans IDE like splashscreens, list of icons and another UI elements. UI Design Resources This section contains links, articles and other NetBeans related materials, which doesn’t fit into below listed categories. NetBeans 6.8 released in 2009 With this version NetBeans was extended to support more technologies including Java FX and Java EE 6 Also a lot of effort went into making the IDE faster and into connected developer area improvements. Updated: 2010-04-21 UI Specifications PHP remote server UI review Embedded Browser UI specification Connected developer - design changes Share on Kenai 2.0 - wizard redesign Issue Tracking UI specification updates Issue Tracking - JIRA integration UI specification updates Presence Indication in NetBeans IDE UI solutions for many of revised Kenai Use-cases UI specification for Enhanced Share on Kenai wizard File Types UI Specification Common Status Line UI specification Usability Reports NetBeans 6.7 released in 2009 Main theme in of this release were further improvements in connected developer area, brand new look & feel for Mac OS X and performance optimalizations through on-demand feature loading. Updated: 2010-04-21 UI Specifications Permanent UI Specifications Connected Developer UI New DB Connection SQL Code Completion NetBeans 6.7 Welcome screen design Mac OSX look & feel redesign Feature on Demand User Interface Usability Reports Connected Developer Usability study NetBeans 6.5 released in November 2008 Introduces numerous UI improvements including IDE-wide QuickSearch shortcut and automatic Compile on Save functionality. Groovy and Grails and improved support for web frameworks are now bundled too! Updated: 2009-03-31 UI Specifications Permanent UI Specifications PHP Integration New Project Wizard UI Specification Remote File Transfer UI Specification Project Customizer UI Specification Run/Debug Configuration Support UI Specification IDE running on JRE instead of the full JDK Mini UI Specification on Formatting Keymap Option Panel UI Specification (not publicly available) Review of Nimus implementation in NetBeans IDE Horizontal Toolbar for views UI specification Common status line specification New Project Wizard Integration. (not publicly available) Global Navigation UI Specification [suspended] Editor Options Integration File-types UI Specification (not publicly available) MySQL bundle installer UI Specification platform.netbeans.org redesign (not publicly available) Usability Reports PHP support in NetBeans usability study NetBeans ALM Module for CodeBeamer UI review UML Meteora UI Review NetBeans IDE running on JRE - UI review NetBeans JavaScript Debugging Usability Study (no publicly available report) NetBeans 6.1 Along with improved performance, NetBeans 6.1 provides new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, and tighter MySQL integration. Updated: 2007-06-09 UI Specifications Permanent UI Specifications PHP New Project Wizard UI Specification PHP Project Customizer UI Specification Feature on Demand , Switch to Full IDE UI Impact Analysis UI Support for Go To Type Dialog Performance Improvements ClearCase User Interviews NetBeans Registration Usability Reports NetBeans.org, Installer and Plugin Manager Usability Study NetBeans ALM Module for CodeBeamer UI review NetBeans 6.0 NetBeans 6.0 comes with a lot of new features and a whole new brand! Many former packs have been integrated to give unified look and feel and provide the best overall experience. I t is now more sexy and easier to use than ever before! Updated: 2007-10-11 UI Specifications Permanent UI Specifications [2007-07] Editor Fonts and Colors Review A throughout review of netbeans editor fonts and syntax higlighting. [2007-09-19] About Dialog Review [2007-08-29] Vista Look and Feel for Window System [2007-08] NetBeans Installation UI specification [2007-07] Local History [2007-06-21] Jackpot UI Specification [2007-05-10] Keymap profile for NetBeans 6.0 [2007-07] Incremental Search Bar integration NetBeans 6.0 now has the handy and fast incremental search well known e.g. from browsers. [2007-07-23] Close Button UI specification [2007-06-15] Editor fonts & colors review Review and redesign of colors and fonts used in the editor. [2007-06] Option Dialog UI Specification ( part 1 , part 2 ) The redesign of Option panel for 6.0 release. However, some parts are not to be implemented for 6.0. [2007-06] Versioning Option Settings UI Specification [2007-04] Maximization and Full Screen Mode UI spec [2007-04] Diff Specificaion [2007-03-08] Versioning Menu [2007-03-08] Sliding Button [2007-03-08] Commit Message History [2007-03-08] Floating Windows [2007-03-06] Output Window Specification [2007-03-06] Progress Indication of Running Processes [2007-03] Framework Support UI Review [2007-02-22] New File Contextual Menu [2007-02-05] Editor Toolbar Reordering [2007-02-15] Proxy Configuration [2007-01-08] Version Control Systems in NetBeans 6.0 [2007-01] Usability Reports Editor Usability Study [2007-06-06] Download Page Usability Study [2007-04-21] Debugger Usability Study [2006-09-07] NetBeans 5.5 NetBeans 5.5 supports the Java Enterprise Edition 5 platform, and most notably the Java Persistence, EJB 3 and JAX-WS 2.0 specifications. NetBeans IDE 5.5 builds on the success of NetBeans 5.0 and adds support for Java EE 5 and Sun Java System Application Server PE 9. Got Web 2.0? Of course! NetBeans 5.5 generates JAX-WS 2.0 artifacts for Java SE 6 and Java EE 5 projects. Additionally, there is the new Subversion support module and an updated module for the GUI builder. Updated: 2007-01-12 UI Specifications Persistence UI Specification [2006-07-11] .NET2Java UI Specification .NET2Hava is designed to import a .NET project written in C# or VB to the Java platform. [2006-06-02] Usability Reports CND Pack Workflow Study This pilot study was focused on discovering potential difficulties in one of the typical workflow - porting an existing, matured and bug-free product using NetBeans 5.5 with CND Pack installed. [2006-11-10]NB Enterprise pack Usability Study Report: NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 [2006-08-09] Java EE 5 The usability study was focused on testing the new Java EE 5 functionality in NetBeans targeted for Promotion G (NetBeans 5.5). [2006-04-10] NetBeans 5.0 NetBeans IDE 5.0 introduces comprehensive support for developing IDE modules and rich client applications based on the NetBeans platform, the new intuitive GUI builder Matisse, new and redesigned CVS support, Weblogic9 and JBoss 4 support, and a lot of editor enhancements. Updated: 22.11.2005 UI Specifications Source and Navigate menu This is the specification for Navigation and Source . This document also describes changes in ordering and naming of menu items in other menus. [2005/10/13] "Introduce Variable" - Refactoring This specification describes feature that allows to replace occurances of an expression by a new local variable. [2005/8/11] "Convert anonymous Inner Class to Nested Class" - Refactoring This feature allows to convert an anonymous inner class to a nested class. [2005/3/15] "Extract superclass" - Refactoring This UI specifiactions describes feature that allows to create a new class based on a given (base) class. The new class is superclass of the base class [2005/8/11] "Move Inner to Outer level" - Refactoring This specification describes a refactoring feature that allows to move inner class to outer level....