There has been significant excitement about the beta release of NetBeans 7.2. In this post, I look briefly at what makes this release so exciting (including better performance, providing more hints, and integrating FindBugs).

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The biggest news in Javadom today is covered in the post Day 23, From the Courtroom: Oracle v. Google Trial - Jury: No Patent Infringement.

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Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM tools), the object-XML impedance mismatch (often addressed with OXM tools), and even the

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Java IDEs have come a long way since the days of JBuilder (though JBuilder seemed like a welcome advance at the time).

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One of the things that can be a little tricky for developers new to Java or even for experienced Java developers new to formatting with Java Dates, is the specification of a date/time format using SimpleDateFormat. The class-level Javadoc-based documentation for SimpleDateFormat is pretty thorough in its coverage of patterns representing various components of a date/time.

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I have talked about some of my favorite NetBeans hints in the posts Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code and Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints.

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This post references and very briefly summarizes several recent posts on subjects of interest to software developers such as NetBeans 7.1.2, progress on Java 8's Lambda Expressions, Guava Release 12, TestNG, Scala, and the expense of ineffective meetings.

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NetBeans uses its projects' settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac's use of the -source and -target.

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In my blog post Are Static Imports Becoming Increasingly Accepted in Java?, I discussed the increasing use of static imports in Java to make code more fluent in certain contexts.

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When running simple Java tests either to learn how something works in Java or to build examples for my blog posts, I often store the examples in the same directory on my machine. I decided that I wanted to remove all the generated .class files from this directory.

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There was a time when the use of the word ain't was widely considered unacceptable, at least in polite society. Indeed, at that time (and perhaps still today), many people did (and do) not consider ain't to be a real word.

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A new constructor and two new methods were added to the Throwable class (parent of Exception and Error classes) in JDK 7. The new constructor and two new methods were added to support "suppressed exceptions" (not to be confused with the bad practice of swallowing or ignoring exceptions).

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The java.util.Currency class has been available since JDK 1.4, but JDK 7 has provided some useful new methods at the class and instance level. I look at these new methods in this post.

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In the post Impact of Demise of GeoCities on Online Software Development References, I discussed the potential loss of intellectual assets with the shuttering of GeoCities. More intellectual assets may be lost with the impending shuttering of Google's Knol.

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In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed next:

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