The NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition tutorial

NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition helps you to "make the jump" from BlueJ to a full-featured IDE, either when your projects have grown too big to fit comfortably into BlueJ, or when you want to use features such as drag-and-drop GUI building or Web Services development which BlueJ doesn't directly support.

This tutorial will help you to get started using NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition, and explain how it is different from BlueJ, and from NetBeans. It won't try to describe everything that you can do with BlueJ (or NetBeans). For that, you should check out the information on the BlueJ or NetBeans main web sites.

NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition is a variant of standard NetBeans, with two significant differences:

• It can open, work with and create BlueJ projects.
• The standard NetBeans interface has been simplified.

This tutorial consists of three sections:

• Overview. How NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition differs from NetBeans and BlueJ.
• Editing and debugging BlueJ projects in NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition
• Moving On. Converting BlueJ projects into standard NetBeans projects, and enabling NetBeans functionality.

Other Tutorials and Resources

• A note on how to enable code completion by Greg Sporar.
• An extended tutorial by Dana Nourie.
• A video on NetBeans/BlueJ from the Sun Developer Network.
• A set of Lab Notes to help in the transition from BlueJ, and show a few of the facilities that NetBeans offers to programmers.
• If you really want to see how far you can take the Zuul-for-netbeans project, check out Brian Leonard's excellent Zuul everywhere tutorial.

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