So here's my problem. I'm making a little java app in my spare time. I've done a moderate amount of java programming, but none of it professionally, and I'd still consider myself a newbie.I'm ...

Hans pointed out what Application Framework is not - It's not modules for Java, data binding, XML schema for Swing, a new set of Swing components, or the NetBeans Platform.

Hundreds of attendees for Sun's fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0.

They used NetBeans to produce a J2ME [Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition] development environment. Now they are using it to implement the IDE [integrated development environment].